Author Archives: Daniela De Angeli

CFP: Making Games (24-25 April 2018, University of Tampere)

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CFP: Making Games                 

24-25 April 2018, University of Tampere 

If we believe that play is a cultural universal, then game making probably is as well. At the same time, while contemporary games circulate globally they are obviously not created in a vacuum. Instead, they are importantly shaped by cultural, social, and geographical contexts and historical trajectories. While major differences in game design paradigms, game studio cultures, and regional game development scenes exist, the academic study of games has only begun to address these issues.

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FEMINISM AND VISUAL CULTURE seeks editorial expertise in GAMING

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MAI: FEMINISM AND VISUAL CULTURE is looking for two or three scholars in video games/gaming to act as section editors for the journal. This will involve open peer review of articles, commission and writing, liaising with the editors in chief (Anna Backman Rogers and Anna Misiak) and possibly editing a special issue on gaming from a feminist perspective.

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Book announcement: Machinima. From video game to video art

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“Machinima. Dal videogioco alla videoarte” ["Machinima. From video game to video art"] is now available from Mimesis Edizioni in Italy. Featuring eight contributions from recognized international scholars, the book examines machinima as an artistic practice, concentrating on the work of Phil Solomon, Jon Rafman, Cory Arcangel, Body Condon, Bill Viola, Rewell Altunaga and other practitioners.
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Job: Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities (tenure-track position) at illinois tech

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The Department of Humanities at Illinois Institute of Technology seeks a tenure-track assistant professor for a Fall 2018 appointment. The ideal candidate will complement the department’s core disciplinary areas: communication, information architecture; history; linguistics; media studies; philosophy and ethics; and science, technology, and society. Competitive candidates must demonstrate a research agenda that integrates digital media technologies and humanistic scholarship. The department is especially interested in candidates whose research questions are approached and answered through large-scale quantitative or corpus-based research methods. Successful applicants must have completed a Ph.D. by August 2018 and must provide evidence of potential for collaborative, interdisciplinary research.

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PhD Recruitment: UNLV Interaction & Media Sciences

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The Interaction & Media Sciences Ph.D. program at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas is recruiting for Fall 2018. Housed in the College of Education, this program was designed to help students develop skills in conducting research in the context of human learning, behavior, and socio-emotional competencies. Areas of research include: human-computer-interaction, instructional design, human performance, video games, game-based models, virtual reality, and simulations.

WG: 1st CfP: Cultural Studies and the Research of (Digital) Games @ the 12th International Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, 12th to 15th August 2018, Shanghai

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1st CfP: Cultural Studies and the Research of (Digital) Games @ the 12th International Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, 12th to 15th August 2018, Shanghai

from August 12th to 15th 2018, Shanghai, China

Hosted by Shanghai University, Crossroads 2018 will bring scholars together in the beautiful summertime to engage with the past, present and future of cultural studies scholarship.

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PhD position at Malmo University on Procedural Content Generation for games

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Job opening: PhD position in procedural Content Generation (Malmö University, Sweden)
Deadline: 05/11/2017

PhD position at Malmö University on Procedural Content Generation for games with Steve Dahlskog, Julian Togelius, and myself in the team. 4 to 5 years of employment. Cutting-edge game research and lots of kanelbullar and fika! Submit your application!

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CfP: AISB AI, Games & Virtual Reality Workshop 2018

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THE WORKSHOP IS RUN BY THE WORLD’S FIRST AI SOCIETY (AISB). ATTENDEES ARE FROM VARIED BACKGROUNDS INCLUDING COMP-SCI, PSYCH, PHIL, BIOLOGY, MATH AND MANY MORE. IN THE GAME RELATED WORKSHOP, THEY COME TOGETHER TO SHARE AND BOUNCE OFF NEW IDEAS OR FIND COLLABORATORS. THE WORKSHOP ALSO ALLOWS YOU TO PRESENT PRELIMINARY RESEARCH AND OFFER STUDENTS A FIRST INTERNATIONAL PORTAL TO PRESENT THEIR RESEARCH TO A KEEN AUDIENCE.

AISB AI, GAMES & VIRTUAL REALITY 2018

Deadline for submission:  Friday 15th December 2017

The AI, Games & VR Symposium, acts as a meeting place for researchers and practitioners from academia, education and industry who are involved with the design, development and evaluation of AI in the context of games or virtual reality and any other form of immersive experience (e.g. 360 videos).

It focuses on the application of artificial intelligence or intelligent-like techniques, frameworks and theories to the creation of interactive engaging intelligent games.

It will address the following areas of research and practice:

  • The use of AI techniques (planning, learning, evolution etc.) in games, VR and the game/VR design process.
  • The design and engineering of AI components in commercial games, virtual environments, VR technology, Immersive experiences
  • AI for serious games, gamification, virtual environments
  • Automatic or semi-automatic procedural content generation
  • Intelligent or adaptive player interaction
  • AI for player/user analytics and modelling player/user behaviour or experience.
  • Agent pathfinding and decision-making in games and virtual reality applications
  • Using games or simulations as a platform for building intelligent agents
  • Environmental simulations for games/VR/immersive experiences
  • Interactive narrative generation
  • Intelligent Narrative Technologies
  • Player perceptions of game AI, VR AI, Immersive experience AI
  • Experimental AI & Games, AI & VR, AI & immersive experience

Papers connecting games to all areas of computational intelligence and traditional AI are considered.

 

Job: Faculty Position (teaching) in Games at University of Utah

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The University of Utah’s Entertainment Arts and Engineering program is conducting a faculty search this year for a teaching professor, open at all ranks. This position is non-tenured, but is intended to be a permanent position, with multi-year contracts. The position is focused on teaching, but research is a clear component of the job. EAE graduate and undergraduate programs are ranked in the top four worldwide by Princeton Review consistently since 2013. The EAE faculty includes artists, computer scientists, designers, games studies scholars, and social scientists who work together to design and teach our courses. This diversity of background in our faculty is one of the core elements of our students’ experiences. EAE teaching faculty have full voting rights in the program and the program’s culture and policies support parity between teaching-focused and research-focused colleagues.

More details about the position, including the link you should use to apply, can be found here: https://utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/69692

Review of applications will begin immediately. Applications received by December 15, 2017 will receive full consideration.

Contact

M. R. Michael Young - Deputy Director, Entertainment Arts and Engineering Professor and Director, Liquid Narrative Group, School of Computing University of Utah