PROGRAMME | Updated 12 October, 2005
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THURSDAY 13 October
18.00-22.00
Registration at Hotel Terminus
Informal Get-together
FRIDAY 14 October
08.30-09.00
Registration at conference venue (UPihl auditorium )
09.00-10.00
Jostein Gripsrud
Opening words
Espen Aarseth [keynote]
Games: The
Art of Simulation
10.15-11.00
Jon Dovey [keynote]
What
am I doing in Vietnam?
11.15-12.15
Melanie Swalwell - remote presentation
Movement and Kinaesthetic Responsiveness: A Neglected Pleasure
Helen Kennedy & Seth Giddings
Playful Objects: agency, technology and aesthetics
12.15-13.15
Lunch
13.15-14.15
Michael Nitsche, Robert Fitzpattrick and Martin Walsh
Character data sets and parameterized morality
Jonas Linderoth
Animated game pieces – Avatars as roles, tools and props
14.30-15.30
Mattias Ljungstr�m
The use of
architectural patterns in MMORPGs
Jonas Heide Smith
The aesthetics
of antagonism
15.45-17.15
Geoff King
Play, Modality and Claims of Realism in Full Spectrum Warrior
Robertson Allen
Representations of the Enemy in Conflict: Desert Storm and America 's Army
Greg Singh
San Andreas: Agency, Movement, and Containment; or, How the West is (Frequently) Won
20.00
GAME DUMP
Game Dump opens at Bergen Kunsthall
SATURDAY 15 October
09.00-10.30
PANEL PRESENTATION
Myth, Performance and Form in World of Warcraft:
1. Tanya Krzywinska
�Elune be
Praised�: The functions and meanings of myth in the World of
Warcraft
2.Henry Lowood
Story-Line,
Dance/Music or PVP? Game Movies and Performance in World of
Warcraft
3. David Surman
Being History:
Contingent Histories, Player Choice, and World of Warcraft
10.45-11.45
S�bastien Babeux
King of the
Hill: Investigation and Re-appropriation of Space in the Video Game
Morten Breinbjerg
The Aesthetic Experience of Sound
11.45.-12.45
LUNCH
12.45-13.45
Bernard Perron
Coming to
Play at Frightening Yourself : Welcome to the World of Horror
Games
Ragnhild Tronstad
Figuring the
Riddles of Adventure Games
14.00-14.30
David Myers
The aesthetics of the anti-aesthetics
15.30-16.15
Daniel Pargman, Jacob Senneby and Simon Goldin
Problematizing production – economy and value creation in Second Life [At Bergen Kunsthall ]
16.15-16.45
Conference round-up discussion [At Bergen Kunsthall ]
19.00
Conference dinner at På Høyden
UPDATES
13 OCTOBER, 2005
Online registration has now closed. Registration on site, NOK 300 per day.
12 OCTOBER, 2005
Conference venue address: Ulrike Pihils hus, Prof. Keysersgate 1. Look for a pale blue and pink house. Please phone Eli on 0047 99 44 14 14 if you have any problems finding us. See map (430 k), opens in new window.
30 SEPTEMBER, 2005
Programme , travel section and front page have been updated.
6 SEPTEMBER, 2005
Web site has been updated with Submission Guidelines for presenters
18 AUGUST, 2005
Programme has been updated
9 JUNE, 2005
Abstracts and preliminary programme have been added to the web site.
21 MAY, 2005
The accommodation page has been updated with special conference offers and information about budget accommodation.
19 APRIL, 2005
The deadline for CfP has now been reached.
16 APRIL, 2005
Confirmed keynote speakers:Games: The Art of Simulation IT University of Copenhagen
What Am I Doing in Vietnam? University of Bristol
28 MARCH , 2005
Registration is now open.
22 MARCH, 2005
The opening of the registration has been postponed from 21 March to 28 March
25 FEBRUARY, 2005
Call for papers has been published. Submit abstract
18 FEBRUARY, 2005
The conference web site has been launched.
