aha, tak ten festival asi nebude zrovna přímo o hrách :)

CALL FOR PROPOSALS!!! HOMO LUDENS 2008!
Homo Ludens - is a multicultural artistic festival. It is held in Warsaw at the Academy of Fine Arts on 6-8 June 2008.
First of all, Homo Ludens festival, as the name indicates is having fun using means of Art. Also a chance for artists to show their work to a wider range of recipients, Polish as well as international. It is also a chance for young unknown yet promising artists. A chance for integration, not only between universities but also international.
Best projects will be financed by the organisers as well as accomodation and partially transportation. You're an artist?! A musician?! - It's worth a try!

Call for proposals dealine is 12th May 2008.
Application form can be downloaded from the website: http://www.homoludens.prv.pl - this website also provides with more information on the festival and will be systematically updated.
In case of any questions please direct to: homoludens.festival@gmail.com

European Journal of Cultural Studies Online Table of Contents Alert
A new issue of European Journal of Cultural Studies is available online:
1 May 2008; Vol. 11, No. 2

The below Table of Contents is available online at: http://ecs.sagepub.com/content/vol11/issue2/?etoc

What is game studies anyway?
David B. Nieborg and Joke Hermes
European Journal of Cultural Studies 2008;11 131-147
http://ecs.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/11/2/131

Ruling the virtual world: Governance in massively multiplayer online games
Sal Humphreys
European Journal of Cultural Studies 2008;11 149-171
http://ecs.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/11/2/149

Review: T.L. Taylor, Play between Worlds: Exploring Online Game Culture. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006. 264. pp. ISBN-10: 0262201631 (hbk) £19.95; ISBN-13: 9780262201636 (hbk) £19.95
Aphra Kerr
European Journal of Cultural Studies 2008;11 173-175
http://ecs.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/11/2/173

The mod industries? The industrial logic of non-market game production
David B. Nieborg and Shenja van der Graaf
European Journal of Cultural Studies 2008;11 177-195
http://ecs.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/11/2/177

Review: Aphra Kerr, The Business and Culture of Digital Games: Gamework/Gameplay. London: Sage, 2006. 177 pp. ISBN 1412900476 (pbk) £21.99; Jon Dovey and Helen W. Kennedy, Game Cultures: Computer Games as New Media. Maidenhead: Open University Press, 2006. 171 pp. ISBN 055521557X (pbk) £19.99
Mark Deuze and Chase Bowen Martin
European Journal of Cultural Studies 2008;11 197-201
http://ecs.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/11/2/197

Digital Arabs: Representation in video games
Vít Sisler
European Journal of Cultural Studies 2008;11 203-220
http://ecs.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/11/2/203

Review: Diane Carr, David Buckingham, Andrew Burn and Gareth Scott, Computer Games: Text, Narrative and Play. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2006. 210 pp. ISBN 0745654001 (hbk) £16.99; ISBN 074563401X (pbk) £50.00
Rune Klevjer
European Journal of Cultural Studies 2008;11 221-223
http://ecs.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/11/2/221

Do you believe in magic? Computer games in everyday life
Daniel Pargman and Peter Jakobsson
European Journal of Cultural Studies 2008;11 225-244
http://ecs.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/11/2/225

Review: Jesper Juul, Half-Real. Video Games between Real Rules and Fictional Worlds. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005. 255 pp. ISBN 0262101106 (hbk) £22.95: Ian Bogost, Unit Operations. An Approach to Videogame Criticism. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006. 245 pp. ISBN 026202599X (hbk) £22.95
Julian Kücklich
European Journal of Cultural Studies 2008;11 245-248
http://ecs.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/11/2/245

Open invitation: mapping global game cultures. Issues for a sociocultural study of games and players
Frans Mäyrä
European Journal of Cultural Studies 2008;11 249-257
http://ecs.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/11/2/249

KHALAVERA: ale psy baštěj určitě pořád stejně:P

...takže na to masi něco bude!

"The Naked Game"
The worlds first piece of online conceptual video game art
"Welcome to the Naked Game. What you are seeing is a primitive version of 'Pong', being played by two artificial intelligences, with the entire code governing the mechanics of the game exposed below it, and the variables affecting the mechanics to the right. Furthermore, you can remove lines of code and see the effects in real time.

The motivation behind this piece was to further explore the degree to which video games can be considered 'Art', by using the constituent parts of a well known gaming experience to explore themes of freedom, restriction, and frailty."
http://www.retrodev.co.uk/MiscGames/NakedGame/TheNakedGame.html

the South Korean's most desired car is not a Ferrari but a Solid Pro, a virtual car from the online game Kart Rider
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/apr/17/robots.korea

Ge Jin, aka Jingle - Chinese Gold Farmers in MMORPGs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEegohRPsqg

JODI http://wwwwwwwww.jodi.org
Jodi, or jodi.org, is a collective of two internet artists: Joan Heemskerk (Bogotá) and Dirk Paesmans (Caracas). Their background is in photography and video art; since the mid-1990s they started to create original artworks for the World Wide Web. A few years later, they also turned to software art and artistic computer game modification. Since 2002, they have been in what has been called their "Screen Grab" period, making video works by recording the computer monitor's output while working, playing video games, or coding.

“Max Payne Cheats Only” • 2004



http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1711659658369686402

In Max Payne Cheats Only (2005), Jodi appropriates a hard-boiled videogame and ‘tricks’ it, immediately revealing the pack of lies of the conventions on which it is based – conventions that make us perceive the game as an alternative believable reality where we can experience adventures – and making the suspension of disbelief an impossible journey.

Pokud máte čas, tak doporučuju prošmejdit:) http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/

Velmi pěkný článek o Spore se zajímavými postřehy;)
http://www.bogost.com/writing/is_spore_for_everyone.shtml

KHALAVERA: tohle taky, ale zase mi zlepšila náladu:) http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/rudolph/

KHALAVERA: zkazilo mi to zbytek odpoledne, dík:P

What is Art?
This page collects answers to this fundamental question from various people in the artgame world.
In the case of the interview responses, the respondents were asked the following question: "Can you give us a one-sentence definition of art? In other words, how do you differentiate works of entertainment from works of art?"
http://www.northcountrynotes.org/jason-rohrer/arthouseGames/seedBlogs.php?action=display_post&post_id=jcr13_1180438849_0&show_author=1&show_date=1
:)

tak ale tohle je dobrá dmnc :)
http://www.skt-products.com/contents/hikkoshi.html

http://grandtextauto.org/
A group blog about computer narrative, games, poetry, and art.

MAHISH: teď koukám, že jsem měl v clipboardu něco jinýho, než jsem si myslel:) takže te'd správně: http://www.yoyogames.com/

Where the world comes to Play, Make & Share online casual games. We're a web 2.0 online gaming community site for game players & game developers. Using our Game Maker Toolset anyone can become a developer: YoYo has a wealth of resources & the support of the Game Maker Community to help you develop your skills, so download GM7 now & start making professional games today!
http://www.farbs.org/games.html

A tohle by tu taky asi nemělo chybět:

AES+F group Last Riot, Last Riot 2





The virtual world generated by the real world of the past twentieth century as the organism coming from a test-tube, expands, leaving its borders and grasping new zones, absorbs its founders and mutates in something absolutely new. In this new world the real wars look like a game on www.americasarmy.com, and prison tortures appear sadistic exercises of modern valkyrias. Technologies and materials transform the artificial environment and techniques into a fantasy landscape of the new epos. This paradise also is a mutated world with frozen time where all past epoch the neighbor with the future, where inhabitants lose their sex, and become closer to angels. The world, where any most severe, vague or erotic imagination is natural in the fake unsteady 3D perspective. The heroes of new epos have only one identity, the identity of the rebel of last riot. The last riot , where all are fighting against all and against themselves, where no difference exists any more between victim and aggressor, male and female. This world celebrates the end of ideology, history and ethic.

http://www.aes-group.org/default.asp

MAHISH: New Study Shows Repeated Video Game Playing Eliminates Sex Discrepancy in Spatial Skills
http://ludica.typepad.com/ludica/2008/04/new-study-says.html

gender & games

I dámy si hrajou http://www.ludica.org.uk/ :)