Games and Transgressive Aesthetics Research Project
Even the best of games will have hit and miss moments. This is particularly so when a game tries, but fails to provoke a strong gut reaction. Such as when using torture. Torture in digital games are often quite problematic. Continue reading When torture doesn’t work
When: Friday May 25, 09.30-17.00 Venue: Media City Bergen, 2nd floor (Seminar room 2, UiB) NB: If you are arriving late and have problems entering the venue, register as Kristine Jørgensen’s guest at the registration screens in the foyer at Continue reading Seminar: Existence and Emotion in Play
We are proud to announce that University of Bergen will host this year’s DiGRA Nordic Conference on Nov 28-30! The topic of the conference is “Subversion, Transgression, and Controversy in Play”. While the topic of the conference springs out of the GTA Continue reading DiGRA Nordic 2018 in Bergen
On May 12-13, the Russian State University for the Humanities will be hosting its third game studies conference, with the theme “Death and Macabre Aesthetics in Games” – this should be of interest to anyone interested in games and transgressive aesthetics. Continue reading Call for Papers: Death and Macabre Aesthetics in Games, Moscow, May 12-13 2018
Last November and December were quite hectic on the monster front. A lot of new literature on monsters came out, such as the Cambridge Companion to American Gothic, the Zombie Theory reader and the special issue of Women, Gender & Continue reading Monster show has hit the road: On Bioshock’s splicers and the AI of Alien: Isolation
In March, April and May, Kristine Jørgensen and me – I am Torill Mortensen, working at the IT University of Copenhagen and one of the active partners in the project – had the University of Bologna as our base while Continue reading GTA goes to Bologna – May 2017
The Games and Transgressive Aesthetics project is organizing a Paper Jam on Mon-Tue Dec 4-5! A Paper Jam is a workshop based event where we come together to write a paper (or other form of text) within a limited Continue reading Paper Jam
This year’s CEEGS conference, which took place the last September week of 2017 in Trnava, Slovakia, hosted the Games and Monstrosity workshop, likely the first of its kind in the history of game studies. Daniel Vella and myself acted as Continue reading Notes from a monstrous workshop, CEEGS 2017
As I noted in my previous post, video game monsters have so far not attracted too much attention of scholars. Thanks to some of the readers and colleagues, I have since read additional work that I previously missed or forgot Continue reading Monster diary, part 3: Two lessons from ancient and medieval monsters
As I promised last time, I am going to write a bit about my personal encounters with video game monsters. A part of my project is empirical research into how players experience and interact with in-game monsters. A logical preparatory Continue reading Monster diary, part 2: Reflections on the monsters of my youth