Fwd: medi at terra 06 : cfp + games - deadline extension

[claudia westermann]

// cfp deadline extended: March 24

// deadline for game submission: April 28

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>medi at terra 06
>international art + technology festival
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>gaming realities
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>September 27 - October 1, 2006
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>CALL FOR PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS
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>Gaming Realities: the Challenge of Digital Culture Conference
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>The Conference 'Gaming Realities: the Challenge 
>of Digital Culture' focuses on four Subject 
>Areas covering a wide range of crucial issues 
>and questions concerning Games and their 
>position in Digital Culture, studied from the 
>Observers' as well as from the Players' point of 
>view: in Subject Area Éü the Socio-Political, 
>Psychological, Cognitive and Philosophical 
>aspects of Game are analysed; in Subject Area B 
>the influences of Game in Art and the Game as 
>21st century's New Art are studied; in Subject 
>Area C Technologies and Techniques that develop 
>or are developed by the Game are presented; and 
>finally Subject Area D concerns the emergence 
>and growth of the New Economy of Games defining 
>its impact in Art and Society of the 21st 
>century.
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>The subject areas that constitute the four basic 
>axes of the Conference are described by 
>indicative topics around which the speakers are 
>invited to communicate.
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>A. The borders between Games and Reality
>(when Games influence Reality)
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>a. the World of Game
>_ Real Games - Virtual Life
>_ Net-Games and Virtual Communities: a utopian space
>_ Social and Anti-Social games
>_ MUDs and Net-Individualism
>_ Game and Communication Utopia
>_ Collective and Individual representation of the World through the Game
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>b. the Identity of the Player - the Identity of the Digital World Citizen
>_ The Embodiment and Dis-Embodiment of the Player and the Game
>_ Virtual Bodies, Games and Gender
>_ What avatars do we choose and what avatars do 
>we create (or they create for us)
>_ Games and Identity
>_ The Essence of Play and the Psychology of t he Player
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>c. Serious Games
>_ Game Politics and politic propaganda in Games
>_ Simulation and Game environments for learning and training
>_ Scientific and Military Games
>_ Freedom, Choice and Censorship in Games
>_ Games and Cognitive Sciences
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>B. Game in Art and Art of Game
>(Game as 21st century's New Art)
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>a. Game as a new field for artistic expression
>_ Game based artworks
>_ Art criticizing Games
>_ The Integration of Game in Art
>_ The Aesthetics of the New Media and "art games"
>_ 'Commercial' Game as Art
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>b. Interactive Narratives and Multi-scenarios: the New Storytelling
>_ Audiovisual and Narrative aspects of Games
>_ Linear and non-linear narratives in art games, and in commercial Games
>_ Multi-scenario strategies
>_ From image to text and from text to image
>_ Responsive Play Environments
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>c. Game Aesthetics: the emergence of a New Art
>_ Game as a New Form of Art and the new Aesthetics of Digital Games
>_ Artistic expression through Game
>_ Aesthetics of New Interactive Media
>_ Aesthetics of Multi-centric Narratives
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>C. Game Technologies
>(Game Evolution through Technology and Technology Evolution through Game)
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>a. History and Evolution of Game Technologies
>_ Game and 'traditional' audiovisual media
>_ From 2D to 3D Game
>_ Mobile gaming: mobile phones and the evolution of Games
>_ Artificial Intelligence Techniques and Intelligent Games
>_ Integration of New Technologies in Game
>_ New Technologies development for Game
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>b. 'Building' a Game: Design and Game Development
>_ From conception to production
>_ Creating a Game scenario: narrative techniques for multimedia/hypermedia
>_ Aesthetics and Techniques for the creation of Virtual Worlds
>_ 3D Game in the Web
>_ Architecture and Game Design
>_ 'Serious' gam es techniques
>_ Sound and Graphics in Game
>_ Designing the Interface: the contact with the Player
>_ Games dramaturgy
>_ Designing virtual actors
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>c. Game-Engines VS PC
>_ Evolution of Game-Engines
>_ Game-Engines and PC evolution
>_ The Future of Game-Engines
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>d. Innovative and Experimental Game Techniques, Technologies and Interfaces
>_ Innovative interactive techniques for Games
>_ Innovative and Experimental Game Interfaces
>_ Special programs, software and programming for Games
>_ New audiovisual techniques and original applications in Games
>_ Original Game Design
>_ Original use of the New Media in Games
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>D. the Real Virtual Economy of Games
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>a. the emergence of a New Economy
>_ Net-Economy and Games
>_ The relation of the Games with the Cinema Industry
>_ Virtual and Real Game Products
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>b. the Geography of the Game Economy
>_ Gam es and New Markets
>_ Games in the East and the West
>_ the New Internet Geography and the Game Markets
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>c. the Future of the Game Economy
>_ Virtual Commerce and its Future
>_ The Future of the Game as a Product
>_ Legislation, Rights and Copyrights in Web-Games
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>Important Dates
>Participation deadline (abstract submission): March 24, 2006
>Notification of acceptance by the Scientific Committee: May 22, 2006
>Deadline for full paper submission (3500-5000 words): June 26, 2006
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>PLEASE VISIT <http://www.mediaterra.org/>www.mediaterra.org
>FOR THE ONLINE SUBMISSION OF YOUR ABSTRACT
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>OR FOR THE CALL FOR GAMES WHICH IS ALSO AVAILABLE
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>FESTIVAL COMMITTEES FOR 2006
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>Organi zing Committee
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>Dodo Santorineos, Director of Fournos Center and medi at terra Festival
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>Manthos Santorineos, Artistic Director of 
>Fournos Center and medi at terra Festival, 
>Assistant Professor in the Athens School of Fine 
>Arts
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>Daphne Dragona, Programme Curator & Coordinator 
>of medi at terra Festival, Coordinator of Fournos 
>Center, Museologist
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>Nefeli Dimitriadi, Researcher and New Media Artist
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>Maria Roussou, Researcher, makebelieve experience design and consulting
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>Nikos Bubaris, Lecturer, Dpt. ÉÕf Cultural 
>Technology and Communication, University of the 
>Aegean
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>Dr. Dimitris Charitos, Lecturer, Dpt of 
>Communication and Media Studies National and 
>Kapodistrian university of Athens
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>Dimitris Delinikolas, New Media Artist, Filmmaker
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>Panagiotis Delinikolas, New Media Music ian, MMORPG-OD
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>Fotis Hadginikos, Ph.D Computer Science, Programmer
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>Yiannis Konstantinou, New Media Artist
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>Maria Pesli, New Media Artist
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>Alexandros Spiropoulos, Researcher, New Media 
>artist, Member of the Personal Cinema collective
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>Panagiotis Stathopoulos, Ph.D Computer Engineer
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>Konstantinos Tiligadis, New Media Artist
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>Stavroula Zoi, Ph.D Informatics, Research & 
>Teaching Associate at the Athens School of Fine 
>Arts
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>Programme Committee
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>Prof Espen Aarseth, Associate Professor and 
>Principal Researcher at the Center for Computer 
>Games Research at the IT-University of 
>Copenhagen, Co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of 
>Gamestudies.org
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>Dr Dimitris Charitos, Lecturer, Dpt of 
>Communication and Media Studies National and 
>Kapodi strian university of Athens
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>Prof Adrian David Cheok, Director of the Mixed 
>Reality Lab, Nanyang Technological University in 
>Singapore, Associate Professor in the Schools of 
>Computer Engineering and Art, Design, and Media
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>Julian Dibbell, Contributing editor, Wired 
>magazine, Author, "My Tiny Life: Crime and 
>Passion in a Virtual World"
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>Gonzalo Frasca, Academic and Professional Game 
>Designer, Editor of www.ludology.org, and 
>co-editor of www.gamestudies.org and 
>www.watercoolergames.org, PhD programme in the 
>Computer Game Research at the IT University of 
>Copenhagen
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>Dr Kenji Ito, Research Associate, Research 
>Center for Advanced Science and Technology, 
>University of Tokyo, Japan
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>Prof Jesper Juul, Assistant Professor in the 
>Center of Computer Games Research at the IT - 
>University of Copenhagen, Game designer, Editor 
>of www.gamestudies.org
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>Prof John Kontos, Professor of Artificial 
>Intelligence at the Department of Methodology, 
>History and Theory of Science, University of 
>Athens
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>Kristian Lukic, Writer, artist, cultural and 
>game researcher, Founder of Eastwood - Real Time 
>Strategy Group
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>Dr Frans Mayra, DIGRA president, Research 
>Director, Hypermedia Laboratory, University of 
>Tampere
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>Julian Oliver, Free-software developer, composer 
>and media-theorist. Founder of 
>www.selectparks.net
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>Prof Zhigeng Pan, Acting Director of the Digital 
>Entertainment and Animation Research Cener, 
>Zhejiang Univ., China
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>Prof Narcis Pares, Assistant professor of the 
>Technology Department of the Universitat Pompeu 
>Fabra, Researcher in the group for 
>Experimentation on Interactive Communication of 
>the Audio-visual Institute at the UPF
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>Maria Roussou, Researcher, Co -Founder of makebelieve experience design and
>consulting.
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>Manthos Santorineos, Artistic Director of 
>Fournos Center and medi at terra Festival, 
>Assistant Professor in the Athens School of Fine 
>Arts
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>Dr Christa Sommerer, New media artist, Professor 
>for Interface Culture, Institute for Media, 
>University of Art and Design Linz, International 
>Co-editor of the Leonardo Journal
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>Eddo Stern, New Media Artist, Game designer, Founder of C-Level
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>David Surman, Lecturer in Computer Games Design 
>at the Newport School of Art, Media and Design, 
>Co-editor of Games and Culture, and Animation: 
>an Interdisciplinary Journal
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>Eric Zimmerman, Game Designer, CEO and Co-Founder of gameLab
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