µP"Demands of the Game Labs Network to universities: Better conditions for research, teaching, and study with digital #games" - a position paper I wrote with some German colleagues:
Today the 4th issue of the German #GameStudies magazine "Spiel-Formen" has been published. Main topic of this issue is #GameLabs. I contributed a photo galery about the "Signal Laboratory" at HU Berlin:
Some impressions from last tuesday's meeting of the "Work Group for #GameLabs in Academia". (Photos were taken by René Meyer:
Prepartion for the "Game Circuit Lab" exhibition at MLU Halle Media Studies Department.
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Tomorrow I will visit the "Haus der Computerspiele" (http://www.spielepower.de/) in Leipzig to meet René Meyer who curates an enormous collection of #Games, #RetroComputers and #GameConsoles. The tour will be presented in my lecture series "The World of #GameLabs".
If you like, you can attend online:
17.12.24 - 16:15pm at https://mluconf.uni-halle.de/b/ste-zv2-y8r-ecd
Today at 16:15 the #GameLab from University Siegen (https://gamelab-siegen.de/) will be presented in my lecture series "The World of Game Labs". Join us on BBB:
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Next week Libi Striegl and Lori Emerson from the @mediaarchaeologylab (Boulder, Colorado) will be guests in my lecture series on #GameLabs to give a tour through their collection and tell us about their projects.
You can attend online on Tuesday, 03.12.2024 from 16:00-18:00 on BBB:
Today I start my lecture series "The World of #Game Labs" at the Department for Media and Communication at University Halle.
The first talk will be given by myself about the ten years of "Signal Laboratory" in the Media Science Department at the Humboldt University (2012-2022).
The talk will be in German and starts at 16:00 (4 pm) ct.
You can attend online here: https://mluconf.uni-halle.de/b/ste-zv2-y8r-ecd
#GameLabs #MediaStudies #MediaArchaeology #GameStudies #ComputerArchaeology
In the winter term 2024/25 I am teaching at the universities in Halle and Bonn:
http://www.simulationsraum.de/blog/2024/07/30/lehre-im-wintersemester-3/
#ComputerArchaeology #CriticalCodeStudies #SoftwareStudies #GDR #ComputerHistory #GameLabs