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Join our Discord Server
by AG Spiele in den DHd 25 Jan '23

25 Jan '23

Dear folk, our member Ann-Kristin has recently finished setting-up the Discord-Server for our AG. There you will find now channels for project discussion, introductions of members, future plannings, hints on tools and literature and more. If you like, join us: https://discord.gg/CRdurEJG all best, Stefan Höltgen --- Dr. Dr. Stefan Höltgen AG Spiele im DHd e.V. Convenor E-Mail: email(a)dhspiele.de <mailto:[email protected]> Web: http:/dhspiele.de

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Attending the DHD2023 conference as "AG Spiele"
by AG Spiele in den DHd 20 Jan '23

20 Jan '23

Dear folks, I was asked by the organizers of the DHD2023 conference (https://dhd2023.dig-hum.de/, 13-17.02.2023) if our AG will join it for a team meeting. I think this is a fantastic opportunity: we could establish a proper work group with those of you who will help with the AG’s projects and agenda, discuss some ideas for further AG plans, and even find more people who are interested in our AG. If you like to attend such a virtual(!) meeting at the DHD2023 conference, please send me an email until next monday (23.01.2302). Then I will ask the conference organisers for a time slot at the conference and reply this to you as soon as possble. While preparing for this, Ann-Kristin Potthast is working on the structure of our Discord Server (https://discord.gg/cguGTZyN) It will launch soon. Any discussions and pepraration (e.g. for the DHD2023 AG meeting) can take place there. best, Stefan --- Dr. Dr. Stefan Höltgen AG Spiele im DHd e.V. Convenor E-Mail: email(a)dhspiele.de <mailto:[email protected]> Web: http:/dhspiele.de

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Call For Papers: Games & Literature. On the literaricity, research, collection, and archiving of computer games. 28–30 June 2023
by AG Spiele in den DHd 16 Jan '23

16 Jan '23

Dear folks, attachted I forward a call for participation to a German conference on „Games & Literature“ at the Archive for Litererature in Marbach. The deadline will be January, 31st. To apply use this link: https://stipendienportal.suhrkamp-forschungskolleg.de/form-callforpapers/in… More information can be found here: https://www.dla-marbach.de/forschung/tagungen/tagungen-detail/529/?cHash=17… all best, Stefan --- Dr. Dr. Stefan Höltgen AG Spiele im DHd e.V. E-Mail: email(a)dhspiele.de <mailto:[email protected]> Web: http:/dhspiele.de > > > > > > Key topics > We invite researchers at all career stages to submit contributions. Based on the key topics outlined, contributions in the following areas are of particular interest: > > Before computer games: Playful and medial forms of literaricity / grey areas of narration > Media shift: Book and game > Storytelling – Text – Code. Narrative techniques in computer games > Describing, researching, and exhibiting computer games as an aesthetic experience > Collecting and archiving software objects > > We are pleased to welcome our keynote speakers Espen Aarseth, Réne Bauer, Astrid Ensslin and Beat Suter. In addition, Lena Falkenhagen will moderate the Game Culture Quartet (organized by the Foundation for Digital Games Culture) at the DLA Marbach. > > Short abstracts (300 words in German or English) for 30-minute papers should be submitted together with a brief CV and a selected publications list by 31 January 2023. > Please submit your abstract and CV by uploading them to this portal: (https://stipendienportal.suhrkamp-forschungskolleg.de/form-callforpapers/in…) > > The conference will be conducted in English. > Accommodation and travel costs will be reimbursed. > > DLA Marbach and Computer Games > In addition to collecting literature in its commonly understood forms, the German Literature Archive Marbach (DLA) also archives and collects computer games as a medial form of literature. The aim of the DLA in doing so is to engage with literature in all its mediality. The substantive reasons for this decision are numerous, but, fundamentally, computer games have long been part of our cultural memory, which must be archived appropriately and examined in relation to established cultural forms. The fact that computer games are discussed in the feature pages of the major daily newspapers, that the German Federal Government awards the German Computer Game Prize, and that computer games are officially recognized as a cultural asset by the Cultural Council is due, among other things, to the work of museums such as the New York Museum of Modern Arts, the Computer Game Museum Berlin, and the Karlsruhe Centre for Art and Media (ZKM). > > As an archive for literature, the DLA has been dealing with hybrid forms of literature for some years now, for literature is not only created and produced between two book covers, but also on the computer, as “born-digital” literature. Within the framework of the “Netzliteratur” project (2013–2017), the DLA has done pioneering work on the systematic analysis and documentation of the creation, playback, performance and mirroring environment of games in line with defined standards. This work is being continued in various projects at the DLA, but a larger international, interdisciplinary conference is needed to further discuss and advance these endeavours with regard to questions of collection and archiving as well as research. To this end, we invite literary scholars, archivists, librarians, as well as researchers in Games Studies, Media and Communication Studies, and game designers to Marbach. > > The “literaricity” of computer games and the collection mandate of a literature archive > The planned conference will encompass various aspects of researching literature and computer games, as well as collecting, archiving, and exhibiting them. Although the intersections, as well as the differences, between literature and computer games have frequently been addressed in the last two to three decades, a systemization of these approaches and a research-led development of a catalogue of criteria for a kind of “literacity” of computer games have only rarely been attempted. Thus, one of the questions to be asked in the context of this conference is which relevance criteria are to be given special consideration in a computer game collection in a literature archive. For just as not every book is relevant to the collection mandate of the DLA, not every computer game will be included in > the collection. For this special collection in the DLA, an interdisciplinary research discussion is still needed to define collection criteria. First significant selection criteria – which are, however, yet to be discussed further – are, for example, the special handling of text and language in a game, in a broader sense than simply through literary objects (such as diaries, manuscripts, libraries, etc.) in the game. Furthermore, we do not wish to ask (as has become the practice in Game Studies) whether computer games are narrative, but rather in what way they are so. In addition to adaptations of literary works, games with reception traces that can be linked to authors and literary works certainly belong in a literature archive. > > Subsequently, the criteria according to which computer games are classified must be clarified, as must the metadata used to list them in the library catalogue. A further challenge is the selection of the accompanying material that is to be archived alongside the game to which it is connected. Possibly there is a game developer’s private library, equivalent to an author’s private library, that needs to be consulted by researchers. And what forms of reception of computer games should the archive and library at the DLA take into account? Numerous activities of gaming culture seem relevant here, for example the staging of a computer game in a Let’s Play; the players and their interaction with and reception of computer games must, with greater urgency, become the subject of research and archives. But even the digital archive has its limits – the goal is never the ‘total archive’ – yet it remains to be determined how social media, for example, is to be collected and archived. > > The analysis instruments > But what definition of text can we use, as a literature archive, with which to approach computer games? The media shift in literature not only calls the concept of text and literature into question, it also repeatedly demands that analytical methods and instruments be expanded and revised. How can computer games be adequately described in such contexts? It is often not enough simply to ‘apply’ established literary terms to computer games – when the aim is to describe computer games in their status as literary forms. These considerations are preceded by the question of what the specific literary narrative of computer games looks like. > > The technologies of archiving and accessibility > In addition to these questions of content, the technical preservation of games and archiving strategies also currently pose challenges. For example, how do we deal with obsolete hardware and software? How can the interaction with recipients, players, be guaranteed at a technical and a curatorial level? How can and should computer games be stored for research in the long term? And finally, institutions are faced with various legal problems: For example, which licences for software and operating systems are to be obtained? > > Concept > Dîlan Canan Çakir – Research Associate MWW – German Literature Archive Marbach > Anna Kinder – Head of Research – German Literature Archive Marbach > > Organization und Coordination > Birgit Wollgarten – Research Secretariat – German Literature Archive Marbach – Tel.: +49 (0)7144 – 848 – 175 – Fax: +49 (0)7144 – 848 – 179 – Email: forschung(a)dla-marbach.de <mailto:[email protected]> > Marie Limbourg – Coordinator MWW Research Association – German Literature Archive Marbach – Tel.: +49 (0)7144 – 848 – 227 – Email: marie.limbourg(a)dla-marbach.de <mailto:[email protected]> > > Contact > Email: forschung(a)dla-marbach.de <mailto:[email protected]>

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The videos from our workshop
by AG Spiele in den DHd 21 Dec '22

21 Dec '22

Dear all, tdoay we’ve uploaded the videos from our workshop in march to our recently established YouTube channel: http://dhspiele.de/game-science-videos-from-the-workshop/ Feel free to distribute the links of the videos! In january we will start a call for papers for a publication, containing some of the workshop’s talks and some other texts about video games and digital humanities. You will receive a note (cfp) via our newsletter. We wish you happy holidays! Stay healthy! Stefan --- Dr. Dr. Stefan Höltgen AG Spiele im DHd e.V. E-Mail: email(a)dhspiele.de <mailto:[email protected]> Web: http:/dhspiele.de

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Pixelvetica Report
by AG Spiele in den DHd 14 Dec '22

14 Dec '22

Dear readers, today Robin François sent the recently published "Pixelvetica Report" to me which I hereby spread: > The whole report (75 pages for the main report + 125 pages for the annex) is only in French, but there are summaries in both German and English. > > https://memoriav.ch/de/videogames-erhalten-pilotstudie-schlussbericht/ best, Stefan --- Dr. Dr. Stefan Höltgen AG Spiele im DHd e.V. E-Mail: email(a)dhspiele.de <mailto:[email protected]> Web: http:/dhspiele.de

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Lev Manovich papers 1991-2007
by AG Spiele in den DHd 01 Dec '22

01 Dec '22

Dear all, yesterday the media scholar Lev Manovich uploaded a collection of all 65 articles he wrote between 1992 and 2007 to archive.org <http://archive.org/>: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1COXhBGBlzc9n7-mlMy_3SevqjOd797wb/view (txt file) and academia.edu <http://academia.edu/>: https://www.academia.edu/91941195/Lev_Manovich_All_Articles_1991_2017 (as PDF) S.H. --- Dr. Dr. Stefan Höltgen AG Spiele im DHd e.V. E-Mail: email(a)dhspiele.de <mailto:[email protected]> Web: http:/dhspiele.de

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Our Kick-off-Workshop "Game Science - Digital Humanities for Games and Gaming" (NEW DATE!)
by AG Spiele in den DHd 04 Feb '22

04 Feb '22

Dear list-eners, on Saturday 12.03.2022 our "AG Spiele“ workgroup will start its work with a kick-off workshop - right after the DHD annual conference. (You may have noticed that we have moved the date from 11.3. to 12.3. to avoid schedule conflicts with tne DHD conference). You can find our call for participations (for active and passive workshop participants) on our website: http://dhspiele.de/call-for-participation/ - Please consider your application and/or please help and spread the word! The AG's website (the page linked above is merely a placeholder) will launch in march, too. There you will find informations about the AG, the research topics and different opportunities to contribute content. So, please bookmark the link and stay tuned. We are looking forward to meeting you in march! Stefan Höltgen --- Dr. Dr. Stefan Höltgen Convener AG Spiele im DHd e.V. c/o Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Fachgebiet Medienwissenschaft Georgenstraße 47 D-10117 Berlin Telefon: (+49) (0)30 2093-66-185 E-Mail: email(a)dhspiele.de Web: http:/dhspiele.de/

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CfP: Kick-off Workshop der AG Spiele
by AG Spiele in den DHd 24 Jan '22

24 Jan '22

Call for Participation Workshop: Game Science. Digital Humanities for Games and Gaming Organiser: AG Spiele @ Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum e.V. Dr. Dr. Stefan Höltgen (Medienwissenschaft, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Jun.-Prof. Dr. Melanie Fritsch (Medienkulturwissenschaft, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf) Date: Wednesday, 11.03.2022, 10am-6pm Uhr (BBB: <http://hu.berlin/game-science>http://hu.berlin/G <http://hu.berlin/G>ameScience - invite only!) While game studies have predominantly focused on the “surfaces” of games such as aesthetic, discursive, social, historical or philosophical aspects during the last two decades, their “subfaces” (F. Nake) have not yet been as thoroughly investigated and were only touched by their producers. But the technical and formal aspects of games that build their dispositifs (and therefore their aprioris) constitute a rich part of the game culture as well. These include specific genealogies, styles, and sublime aesthetics in their rich histories and phenomenologies that should be documented and preserved in order to understand a game as a whole. In addition, all epiphenomena that deal with the ephemeral character of gaming as a (performative) act should be included as well: from the audio-visual outputs of the games and specific actions of gamers from the viewpoint of anatomical, physiological, and neurological human-machine interactions through specific aspects of gaming culture that create a universe of paratexts around the games. Against this backdrop, the AG Spiele (Working group for Games) of the DHd. e.V. (Digital Humanities within the German-speaking World) focuses on games (analog and digital computer games, video games, mechanical, electro-mechanical, and hybrid games and game devices), gaming and gaming cultures. Within the digital humanities, games have been used as methods and tools (for gamification to gain meta data or as simulations for interactive visualization projects). AG Spiele, however, focusses on games themselves as cultural and technological artifacts that can be analyzed with methods of the digital humanities. We invite scientists and scholars from different disciplines, such as game studies, computer science, media studies/science, philology, electronics, formal sciences, history, and other fields that are concerned with games to get into an interdisciplinary exchange within the frame of this kick-off workshop. For this purpose, we invite talks (max. 20 minutes) during which planned and finished game DH projects can be presented or ideas for new projects and collaborations can be brought up for discussion. Some potential fields of interest are: Hardware, software, and knowledge preservation / digital heritage preservation of games databases for games and gaming processes quantitative analysis of game input and output formal analysis / formalizing gaming processes game source codes as a type of text paratexts / gray literature of games and gaming culture artificial intelligence for game analysis and game playing legal conditions and constraints for game preservation and game research in the DH virtualizing and emulating games media specific collections, exhibitions, and provision of games medical and biological aspects of gaming gamer cultures your suggestion! Please submit your proposal on a topic from those areas (or similar) with a maximum of 1200 characters, a short biography, and a short list of your publications in the field. Submission deadline is February 15th by email: email(a)dhspiele.de <mailto:[email protected]> To attend our workshop as a (more or less) passive discussant, please write us an email until February 28th and attach some information about your fields of research/interests and a short academic biography. (Please understand that we only invite a limited number of participants to ensure the workshop character.) The workshop will be held in English language and is supported by the Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum e.V., and the Department for Media Science at Humboldt-Universität Berlin. Contact and applications: email(a)dhspiele.de <mailto:[email protected]> --- Dr. Dr. Stefan Höltgen AG Spiele im DHd e.V. c/o Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Fachgebiet Medienwissenschaft Georgenstraße 47 D-10117 Berlin Telefon: (+49) (0)30 2093-66-185 E-Mail: email(a)dhspiele.de <mailto:[email protected]> Web: http:/dhspiele.de

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CfP: Kick-off Workshop der AG Spiele
by AG Spiele in den DHd 24 Jan '22

24 Jan '22

Call for Participation Workshop: Game Science. Digital Humanities for Games and Gaming Organiser: AG Spiele @ Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum e.V. Dr. Dr. Stefan Höltgen (Medienwissenschaft, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Jun.-Prof. Dr. Melanie Fritsch (Medienkulturwissenschaft, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf) Date: Wednesday, 11.03.2022, 10am-6pm Uhr (BBB: <http://hu.berlin/game-science>http://hu.berlin/G <http://hu.berlin/G>ameScience - invite only!) While game studies have predominantly focused on the “surfaces” of games such as aesthetic, discursive, social, historical or philosophical aspects during the last two decades, their “subfaces” (F. Nake) have not yet been as thoroughly investigated and were only touched by their producers. But the technical and formal aspects of games that build their dispositifs (and therefore their aprioris) constitute a rich part of the game culture as well. These include specific genealogies, styles, and sublime aesthetics in their rich histories and phenomenologies that should be documented and preserved in order to understand a game as a whole. In addition, all epiphenomena that deal with the ephemeral character of gaming as a (performative) act should be included as well: from the audio-visual outputs of the games and specific actions of gamers from the viewpoint of anatomical, physiological, and neurological human-machine interactions through specific aspects of gaming culture that create a universe of paratexts around the games. Against this backdrop, the AG Spiele (Working group for Games) of the DHd. e.V. (Digital Humanities within the German-speaking World) focuses on games (analog and digital computer games, video games, mechanical, electro-mechanical, and hybrid games and game devices), gaming and gaming cultures. Within the digital humanities, games have been used as methods and tools (for gamification to gain meta data or as simulations for interactive visualization projects). AG Spiele, however, focusses on games themselves as cultural and technological artifacts that can be analyzed with methods of the digital humanities. We invite scientists and scholars from different disciplines, such as game studies, computer science, media studies/science, philology, electronics, formal sciences, history, and other fields that are concerned with games to get into an interdisciplinary exchange within the frame of this kick-off workshop. For this purpose, we invite talks (max. 20 minutes) during which planned and finished game DH projects can be presented or ideas for new projects and collaborations can be brought up for discussion. Some potential fields of interest are: Hardware, software, and knowledge preservation / digital heritage preservation of games databases for games and gaming processes quantitative analysis of game input and output formal analysis / formalizing gaming processes game source codes as a type of text paratexts / gray literature of games and gaming culture artificial intelligence for game analysis and game playing legal conditions and constraints for game preservation and game research in the DH virtualizing and emulating games media specific collections, exhibitions, and provision of games medical and biological aspects of gaming gamer cultures your suggestion! Please submit your proposal on a topic from those areas (or similar) with a maximum of 1200 characters, a short biography, and a short list of your publications in the field. Submission deadline is February 15th by email: email(a)dhspiele.de To attend our workshop as a (more or less) passive discussant, please write us an email until February 28th and attach some information about your fields of research/interests and a short academic biography. (Please understand that we only invite a limited number of participants to ensure the workshop character.) The workshop will be held in English language and is supported by the Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum e.V., and the Department for Media Science at Humboldt-Universität Berlin. Contact and applications: email(a)dhspiele.de --- Dr. Dr. Stefan Höltgen AG Spiele im DHd e.V. c/o Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Fachgebiet Medienwissenschaft Georgenstraße 47 D-10117 Berlin Telefon: (+49) (0)30 2093-66-185 E-Mail: email(a)dhspiele.de Web: http:/dhspiele.de

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Fwd: Call for Papers: Digitale Spiele in Museen
by AG Spiele in den DHd 23 Dec '21

23 Dec '21

Liebe Listenleser:innen, unten leite ich einen Hinweis/eine Einladung an euch weiter. Gruß Stefan > Anfang der weitergeleiteten Nachricht: > > Von: Laura Frings <lf(a)colognegamelab.de> > Betreff: Call for Papers: Digitale Spiele in Museen > Datum: 22. Dezember 2021 um 20:57:09 MEZ > An: email(a)dhspiele.de > > Liebe AG Spiele, > > ich bin Laura Frings und WMA am Cologne Game Lab. Wir werden im März eine Konferenz zu digitalen Spielen und ihren "Vorgängermedien" in Museen abhalten. Könnten Sie den dazugehörigen Call for Papers ggf. über Ihre Mailingliste teilen? Dafür wäre ich Ihnen sehr dankbar. Falls ja, bräuchten Sie dazu noch etwas von mir? > > Hier ist der Link zum Call: https://colognegamelab.de/play-an-interdisciplinary-conference-on-digital-g… <https://colognegamelab.de/play-an-interdisciplinary-conference-on-digital-g…> > Vielen Dank für Ihre Rückmeldung und viele vorweihnachtliche Grüße > > Laura Frings > -- > > > Dr. Laura Frings > Program Manager > Cologne Game Lab > > T: +49 221 - 8275 4296 > E: lf(a)colognegamelab.de <mailto:[email protected]>, laura.frings(a)th-koeln.de <mailto:[email protected]> > > Technische Hochschule Koeln > Cologne Game Lab > Schanzenstr. 28 > 51063 Köln > Germany > > www.th-koeln.de <http://www.th-koeln.de/> > >

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