Monthly Archives: October 2011

CfP: ICA Game Studies Welcomes Paper Submissions (and Volunteer Reviewers) for 2012 Conference

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You are invited to submit papers to the Game Studies paper competition for the upcoming ICA 2012 annual conference to be held 24-28 May 2012 in Phoenix, Arizona. Papers must be submitted online using the ICA online submission system (http://www.icahdq.org/cfp) by 11 p.m. Eastern U.S. time on 1 November 2011.

ICA welcomes papers from a variety of disciplinary approaches on a broad range of topics dealing with the study of games and the game experience. More details about our paper competition and the general ICA call for papers guidelines can be found at the group’s web site, http://icagames.org.

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CfP: Pouvoirs des jeux vidéo : des pratiques aux discours (In French only)

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Pouvoirs des jeux vidéo : des pratiques aux discours

Les jeux vidéo sont des objets culturels hybrides mal identifiés dans le découpage classique des disciplines universitaires. Ils occupent néanmoins, depuis trente ans, une place prépondérante dans les élaborations épistémologiques diverses liées aux cultural studies. Depuis les années 1980 et les analyses polémiques de John Fiske sur les cultures populaires, les jeux vidéos sont en effet l’objet contradictoire de tous les conflits épistémologiques liés à la manière d’interroger le rapport entre productions idéologiques et pratiques culturelles. Tour à tour analysés comme instruments de gouvernementalité impériale, lieux de reproduction des représentations de pouvoir, instruments d’émancipation d’une société arquée sur le travail, et médias de subversion par le jeu des représentations sociales traditionnelles, les jeux vidéos n’ont échappé à aucune des polémiques qui ont traversé le champ des études culturelles.

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Conference: GAME : A Three Day Video games Event at Macquarie University

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Running from October 27th – 29th at Macquarie University, North Ryde, Sydney Australia, GAME consists of a free public debate on video game politics and policy, an academic conference featuring world renowned keynote speakers Ian Bogost (Georgia Institute of Technology) and Espen Aarseth (IT University of Copenhagen), and a games festival.

Other speakers include:

· Martin Slater (2K Games)

· Professor Terry Flew (Australian Law Reform
Commission)

· Paul Hunt (MLCS
Management & Former Deputy Director of the OFLC)

· Associate Professor Jeffery Brand (Bond University)

and more …

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Conference: Staging Illusion: Digital and Cultural Fantasy – Dec 8-9, University of Sussex

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Staging Illusion: Digital and Cultural Fantasy
December 8th and 9th, University of Sussex
Tickets £190 (£85 student)

Keynote speakers: Professor Vanessa Toulmin (Director of the National Fairground archive), Dr Sarah Kember (Goldsmiths) and Professor Sally R Munt (Director of the Sussex Centre for Cultural Studies).

Plenary speakers: Dr Astrid Ensslin (Bangor), Dr Melanie Chan (Leeds Met), Professor Nicholas Till (Sussex), and Dr Jo Machon (Brunel).

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CfP: CHI 12 Interactivity Research and Explorations track – Includes games

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Call for submissions for CHI 12 Interactivity Research and Explorations track

http://chi2012.acm.org/cfp-interactivity.shtml

For CHI 2012 there are two categories within the Interactivity scheme with separate submission processes: Research & Explorations

Submission: 9 January 2012 (5:00pm PDT) (see website for details)
Notification: 10 February 2012
Camera Ready: 17 February 2012
Selection process (both Research and Explorations): Juried and Curated
Extended Abstract: on DVD and ACM Digital Library

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Job: Full-time position Game Desing and Interaction Design at University of Baltimore in Maryland

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The University of Baltimore in Maryland is seeking a faculty member for our Science, Information Arts + Technologies division to teach in our undergraduate game design program and graduate interaction design programs to begin in January or August 2012. You can learn more about our programs at: http://iat.ubalt.edu/. The successful candidate will have a strong commitment to teaching, demonstrated success in research, creative professional practices, and publications and the ability to teach a range of courses in our two undergraduate and two graduate degree programs. We are especially interested in innovative leaders whose vision and energy can help take already successful programs to new levels of excellence.

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CfP: Autumn School on Computational Creativity

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AUTUMN SCHOOL ON COMPUTATIONAL CREATIVITY

http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/ascc

7-11 November 2011 – Porvoo, Finland

The University of Helsinki (together with Hecse and HIIT) will organize an international autumn school on computational creativity. We cordially invite PhD and MSc students and researchers who are interested in being introduced to various aspects of computational creativity by experts in the field. Previous experience of the field is not needed. We target audience that has background in computing, but we also welcome participants from other related disciplines.

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PhD: Exertion Games Lab (Melbourne Australia) looking for PhD Candidates

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The Exertion Games Lab (exertiongameslab.org) in Melbourne, Australia, is seeking exceptional PhD candidates to research the future of exertion games and play.

The Exertion Games Lab is a new lab that researches the future of gaming in order to understand how to design better interactive experiences, in particular games that require intense physical effort from players. We call it the intersection between gaming and sports. Our research is focused on the merging of play and the active human body, drawing from research streams such as interaction design, human-computer interaction and computer games research.

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