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PhD defense. Rikke Toft Nørgård: Gameplay Corporeality: the corporeal-locomotive dimension in gameplay activity and experience

Posted on 14. November 2012 by Søren Pold

[ 28. November 2012; 10:00 to 13:00. ] NB: The time of the defense is moved to 10-13 (same date and place)
Rikke Toft Nørgård defends her Ph.D. thesis on digital games, gameplay and gameplayers entitled Gameplay Corporeality: the corporeal-locomotive dimension in gameplay activity and experience

28 November 2012, 10-13

The Peter Bøgh Andersen Auditorium, Nygaard bygn. Helsingforsgade 14, 8200 Aarhus N

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Gameplay Corporeality: the corporeal-locomotive [...]

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New book: Playing Computer Games: Somatic Experience and Experience of the Somatic

Posted on 24. September 2012 by Søren Pold

Henrik Smed Nielsen
Digital Aesthetic Research Center, 2012, 278 pp.
DKK 150,- / EUR 20,-
ISBN 87-91810-21-3
Available here as paperback: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Playing-Computer-Games-Somatic-Experience/dp/8791810213/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1347860511&sr=8-1
Download pdf here.
First written as a PhD dissertation in 2011, the book investigates the bodily dimension of the computer game experience – based on the overarching thesis that computer game-play is a bodily founded and bodily savoured activity. [...]

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Book presentation @ dOCUMENTA

Posted on 17. September 2012 by geoffcox

[ 16. September 2012; 11:00 to 12:30. ]
Speaking Code: Coding as Aesthetic and Political Expression (MIT Press) examines the expressive and performative aspects of programming; alternatives to mainstream development, from performances of the live-coding scene to the organizational forms of commons-based peer production; the democratic promise of social media and their paradoxical role in suppressing political expression; and the market’s emptying out [...]

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