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Bad
Games colloquium
Saturday 18th July, 10am - 6pm
Pervasive Media Studio
Leadworks, Bristol
The Play Research Group at the University of the West of England, Bristol hosts a day of research outlines, position papers, media projects and provocations on the theme of Bad Games.
Bad Games will:
·
Question Game Studies' celebration of its objects of study
Thematise games and play as a central yet ambivalent characteristic of
digital culture
Question influential assumptions of the liberatory potential of interactivity
· Reflect on, revise, reject, renovate or otherwise refresh critical
modelings of ludic digital culture that assume it be an intrinsically
positive, creative or subversive alternative to ‘old media’
· Complicate simplistic moral panics about bad games and their
effects
· Consider bad games in the context and rubrics of other ‘bad’
media theory
| Bad
Games are Sex games Game death War games Shit games Black games Bad art Evil children Diseased games Power games |
We
will promote nasty play celebrate easy play revel in war, violence and death insist on sex savage 'serious' games acquiesce to the hyperreal |
The colloquium will be structured so that participants share proposals and dialogue, discussion and responses rather than as a presenter/question time format.
Enquiries
to: helen.kennedy@uwe.ac.uk
COST: £20 – payable on the day.
Tea/Coffee and pizza will be provided.