Who plays, how much, and why? Debunking the stereotypical gamer profile
Dmitri Williams, Nick Yee, Scott E. Caplan
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/121394419/ABSTRACT

Rozhovor s CORY ARCANGEL ( [ MAHISH @ Game culture, art and studies & ludology... a tak ] )
http://contemporary-magazines.com/profile84.htm

MOYYO: ja jedu ve ctvrtek

// ot: ste tady nekdo na ty gcdc? :)

A Bridge between Virtual Worlds
http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/21203/?nlid=1265&a=f

NFS soundtrack meets WoW characters hehe:)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJXz8nNxLLA

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A new issue of Space and Culture is available online:
1 August 2008; Vol. 11, No. 3

The below Table of Contents is available online at: http://sac.sagepub.com/content/vol11/issue3/?etoc

The Geography of Virtual Worlds: An Introduction
Eric Gordon
Space and Culture 2008;11 200-203
http://sac.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/11/3/200

Placeworlds: Using Virtual Worlds to Foster Civic Engagement
Eric Gordon and Gene Koo
Space and Culture 2008;11 204-221
http://sac.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/11/3/204

Datascape: A Synthesis of Digital and Embodied Worlds
Eric Kabisch
Space and Culture 2008;11 222-238
http://sac.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/11/3/222

The Experience of Embodied Space in Virtual Worlds: An Ethnography of a Second Life Community
Shaowen Bardzell and William Odom
Space and Culture 2008;11 239-259
http://sac.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/11/3/239

Spatial Regimes of the Digital Playground: Cultural Functions of Spatial Practices in Computer Games
Sybille Lammes
Space and Culture 2008;11 260-272
http://sac.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/11/3/260

The Case for Education in Virtual Worlds
Rebecca Nesson and Charles Nesson
Space and Culture 2008;11 273-284
http://sac.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/11/3/273

MOYYO: děkuju!

jj, uz sem taky vcera hledal schedule :)
game devel conf @ leipzig

MOYYO: nemohl by si prosím tě nahodit link? nějak mám problém, že se vždy dostanu na San Franciskou ou jou :) a taky jsem trocha líná osoba'

Top 10 Most Influential AI Games
http://aigamedev.com/reviews/top-ai-games

A ještě jedna nedávno proběhnuvší výstava ve Vídni.



http://www.creativegames.org.uk/Games2008/exhibition.htm

Game Art
(This is not) A Manifesto
(This is) A Disclaimer

by Matteo Bittanti

http://www.gamescenes.org/images/GameArt_eng.pdf


Game Aesthetics
How videogames are transforming contemporary art

by Domenico Quaranta

http://www.gamescenes.org/images/Game_aesthetics_eng.pdf



Texty z knihy [ MAHISH @ Game culture, art and studies & ludology... a tak ] ( GameScenes. Art in the Age of Videogames (John & Levi, 2006) ), doporučuju.

Chlapík se jal vytvořit si virtuální knohvnu resp databázi všech možných knih a textů o GameArtu apod:)
http://www.janssonswebb.se/gameart/lib/

MAHISH: http://youtube.com/watch?v=sSud3XzA82Q ;)

Half-Real by Jasper Juul

The Half-Real of the title refers to the fact that video games are two rather different things at the same time: video games are real in that they are made of real rules that players actually interact with; that winning or losing a game is a real event. However, when winning a game by slaying a dragon, the dragon is not a real dragon, but a fictional one. To play a video game is therefore to interact with real rules while imagining a fictional world and a video game is a set of rules as well a fictional world.
(Half-Real introduction.)

Half-Real is an attempt at creating a basic theory of video games: In the book I discuss what video games are and how they relate to non-digital games, how players learn to use a game, how players imagine the world of a game, and why video games are fun.

Half-real is a book on video game theory, but it is generally readable. As for method, the book is an eclectic mix of theories on games, film and literary theory, computer science, and psychology. The book is based on numerous game examples, with more than 100 screenshots from the past 40 years of video games.

http://www.half-real.net/ http://www.jesperjuul.net/

Tobias Bernstrup

...Tobias Bernstrup's work also explores the point at which the real and the virtual meet, although Bernstrup turn the liminality into a positive possibility to play out fantasy, writing on his website that "the game is the perfect fetish reality".
In his Live performances and video installations, such as In The Dead Of Night (2000), Friedrich Passage (2001) and Penthouse Idle (2000) Bernstrup splices images of his real-time locality with a parallel virtual world, mapping photographs of himself and his environments onto the matrix of computer game programmes. Bernstrup and his immediate geographical environs are transplanted into a virtual reality world where, as a simulated avatar, he can play out a specific kind of fantasy which retains an umbilical link to the real world. In his performances such as Tobias Bernstrup Tonight Live, this process is reversed. Bernstrup dresses up in elaborate costumes with rubber surfaces so shiny and perfect and make-up so convincingly 'drag' as to mimic computer renderings of his desired image.
Bernstrup is fascinated with with the fetishistic quality of artificial surfaces, and the soundtracks to his videos are equally airtight and electronic. His work pictures the position of the human subject caught up in and trying to exist by being visible with the enveloping skin of the image world. Bernstrup's work blurs the boundaries of the real and the imaginary by allowing elements of each to seep into the other: as a result of this, his videos have a slighty cut & paste home-made look, but his live performances an unreal, seamless transcendence of real space and time. Givens of real biology or geography are suggested as areas for slippage rather than fixed points in his world in which everything has become surface, none of its aspects wholly traceable back to tangible experince.


Selected lyrics from the CD Killing Spree, produced by Kunsthalle Nürnberg, 2005.

Killing Spree
In this digital wasteland
Where we were born
Raised by cable
And corporate spy ware
Lived by the console
We broke free
With superior knowledge
We rose against it all

We are the children running wild
On a killing spree

Now we got access
To your secret code
We’re in control now
And we search and destroy
This is a playground
Of concrete and steel
Post industrial landscape
Let’s make it real

We are the children running wild
On a killing spree
We are the children of our time
So get down on your knees

Music & Lyrics T. Bernstrup

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xseed 4000
modification of computer game, 2004
Installation with PC computer, projector, speakers and mouse.
Soundtrack by Tobias Bernstrup
2004

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re-animate me (CD) 2002
DL: http://www.tonightrecords.com/freemp3tracks.html



"...In the performance Re-Animate Me (2002), Bernstrup encourages the space of video and stage to collude, refexively extending the experience of both. The opening video game sequence, projected onto the stage backdrop, takes the audience on a flight through a futuristic city, the camera's point of view like a rollercoaster simulation. We swoop up the face of a billboard that advertises 'RealDoll - Silicone and steel, it feels so real', through nooks and gullies into a gothic interior emblazoned with a neon 'Bernstrup', where an Amazonian RealDoll in a red fetish outfit rises out of the floor. The screen then fades to black, the stage lights come up and Bernstrup appears, an automaton programmed to perform for the Stockholm audience..."


http://www.bernstrup.com/index2.html