Game Engines/Social Engines - POLYLOGUES II.

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Polylogue session about game engines, their social and political aspects.

The interdisciplinary meeting should create an open space for deeper theoretical reflection on the recent development in the field of serious games. We are looking for various perspectives, examples and thoughts on social, political and artistic aspects of videogames. Researchers, theoreticians, game designers, programmers and artists are welcome to join the discussion.

List of topics:

Videogames & Politics

  • Political aspects of videogames
  • Representation and self-representation
  • Digital emancipation and creation of heroes (Middle East, China)
  • Persuasive games and games as means of propaganda

Social Engines

  • Social aspects of videogames
  • Activism and virus campaigns
  • Social networking in games
  • Educational videogames

Abstracts of papers (15 to 20 min) should reach us before 20th March 2006 in order to facilitate moderation. Short presentations (10 min) are also possible, send us only the title. Please send us you telephone number, ICQ, Skype etc..

Presentations:

Ivor Diosi (Slovak & Czech Republic)
Home dictate
International Centre for Art and New Technologies in Prague
http://www.ciant.cz

Ali Mazalek
Georgia Institute of Technology (USA)
Media Table Games: bringing role-playing back to the tabletop
http://synlab.gatech.edu/

Jan Mucska
San Francisco (USA, Czech Republic)
BFight
http://bfight.org/

Jay Bolter
Georgia Institute of Technology (USA)
'Content' in Digital Games
http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/~bolter/

Vit Sisler
Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic)
Digital Resistance: Reflection of Palestinian Intifada in Arabic Videogames
http://uisk.jinonice.cuni.cz/sisler
Power point presentation http://uisk.jinonice.cuni.cz/polylogues/resistance.ppt

Moderators:

Vít Šisler
New Media Studies & Institute of Near Eastern and African Studies
Charles University of Prague
vsisler[at]gmail.com

Denisa Kera
New Media Studies
Charles University of Prague
denisa.kera[at]ff.cuni.cz

John Holder
School of Architecture and the Visual Arts
University of East London
holder[at]uel.ac.uk