Laguna College of Art and Design is currently seeking an assistant/associate professor in the Game Art major. The College is located in an internationally recognized arts colony in Laguna Beach, California and offers a diversity of majors in Animation, Design and Digital Media, Fine Art, Game Art, and Illustration.
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CfP: Special Issue of Well Played – Let’s Play as Well Played
Between 2006 and 2007, both the Well Played approach to video game analysis and the Let’s Play (LP) format for recording and sharing player experiences emerged. This special issue of the Well Played journal merges these two modes of engaging with games by asking contributors to depart from the traditional academic medium of the written article, and instead create a video that helps us further explore what we mean when we talk about a game, player, or developer as well played.
Job: TT Game Creation and Interactive Storytelling – Bloomfield College
Bloomfield College invites applications for a full time, tenure track position, at the rank of Assistant Professor in the division of Creative Arts & Technology. We are seeking a skilled multidisciplinary new media artist with expertise in game creation and interactive storytelling environments that incorporate several forms of new media: digital photography, 2D/3D animation, electronic music, video, performance, 3D printing, physical computing, creative coding, interactive, locative, web-based art making, mobile design & development, UX design, virtual reality. Openness to experimentation in many creative disciplines is expected, along with a deep commitment to understanding race and class issues and the ability to relate to a diverse student population. Responsibilities include teaching six courses per year in related curriculum, and other courses based on the specializations of the candidate hired.
Please see the official full posting and details for application on HigherEdJobs.com under the title “Assistant Professor of Creative Arts and Technology”.
CfP: 1st International Conference on Game Jams, Hackathons and Game Creation Events (ICGJ2016)
Foaad Khosmood writes:
We are proud to announce the first-ever conference on game jams to be held as a one-day event in Berkeley, California on Sunday, March 13, 2016. There are multiple submission types available and proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital library.
CfP: eSports and professional game play (Special Issue VGAlt)
The purpose of this special issue is to investigate the rise of eSports.
CfP: HCI Goes to the Zoo (CHI2016 Workshop)
Marcus Carter writes:
I’m co-organizing a workshop at CHI 2016, May 7-12, on ‘Human-Computer Interaction in the Zoo’, and we’re very open to Game Studies research related to zoos. If anyone is working in that area it would be great to hear about your work.
CfP: Special Issue of Well Played: Let’s Play as Well Played
A special video issue of Well Played, edited by Moses Wolfenstein and focusing on Let’s Play as well played.
CfP: Special Issue Games and Culture – Morality Play
Guest editors: Malcolm Ryan, Rowan Tulloch and Paul Formosa
Topic: Morality Play: The Design of Games for Ethical Engagement
CfP: Analog Game Studies–Affect/Economics/Open Call
Analog Game Studies (analoggamestudies.org) is an online academic journal committed to increasing the visibility of analog games within the broader field of game studies by providing a periodically published platform for the critical analysis, discussion of design, and documentation of analog games. For more detail on what we do, see “Reinventing Analog Game Studies.” We are currently seeking submissions for three forthcoming issues in 2016 on the following themes. (Articles published online will likely appear in a yearly print anthology as well.)
1st Joint International Conference of DiGRA & FDG 2016
For the first time, the Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) and the Foundation of Digital Games (FDG) will partner in an unprecedented gathering of games researchers. We invite researchers and educators within game research, broadly construed, to submit their work.