Games and Transgressive Aesthetics
Games and Transgressive Aesthetics Research Project
In March 2019, I made a trip to several U.S. cities. At most of the stops, I was promoting my book Gaming the Iron Curtain, which has little to do with monsters, although it is about transgressions – namely the Continue reading Check your bestiaries: Politics of Monsters in Video Games (Monster show hits the road, part 3)
Wednesday Nov 28, 2018: Venue: Media City Bergen, Lars Hilles gate 30 11.30-13.00 – Lunch at Media City Bergen (Restaurant area, ground floor) 13.00-15.00 – Evaluation meeting (Press room, first floor, Media City Bergen) 13.00-13.30 – Presentation of the project Continue reading Program: GTA Evaluation Meeting
It is about time to post an update on my monster research. This Spring, I travelled to conferences to share my research about monsters, and to discuss and develop it with an international roster of colleagues. And once again, I Continue reading Monster show hits the road, part 2: Terror in Toronto & Macabre in Moscow
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
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
This is Jaroslav speaking again! After taking the monster show to CEEGS 2017 with Daniel Vella this September, I’d like to bring it to North America. I’m going to submit a panel proposal to SCMS 2018 (Toronto). If you’re interested Continue reading Call for panel participants: Demystifying video game monsters at SCMS 2018
Date: Monday, May 22, 2017 Location: University of Bologna, Dipartmenti Arti, room: Salone Marescotti (1st floor on the left). Via Barberia 4. Diverting from a focus on games and gaming, game studies currently pays growing attention to play, playfulness, and play Continue reading Program: Researching the Transgressive Aspects of Gaming and Play Seminar