Tag Archives: Darc

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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Aesthetics Re-loaded

Posted on 22. June 2012 by Søren Pold

[ 11. December 2012 to 13. December 2012. ]

The Aesthetics of New Digital Technology
http://aestheticsreloaded.au.dk/
International conference
December 11-13, 2012
Aarhus University, Denmark

The aim of the conference is to advance and exchange basic research on aesthetics within the field of new technology. The conference will explore the concept of aesthetics by investigating the challenges new computational technologies pose for current aesthetic theory. (Read more…)

Confirmed keynote speakers: Bernard Stiegler, Olga Goriunova, and [...]

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Morten Riis in Die Zeit

Posted on 9. February 2012 by Søren Pold

As part of the In/Compatible Research panel which featured DARC researchers like Christian Ulrik Andersen, Geoff Cox, Morten Breinbjerg, Thomas Bjørnsten, Tatiana Bazzichelli, Morten Riis performed with Steam Machine Music at Transmediale Festival, Berlin. Die Zeit came by and made it the first 2 minutes of the 8 minutes video presenting “Die schönsten Performances der [...]

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