Confoederatio LudensNov 7, 2023

The @DLAMarbach has organized a conference on “Games & Literature. On the literacity, research, collection, and archiving of computer games”. We were represented with contributions by René Bauer, Beat Suter, @thgie and @eugen_pfister

Read about our participation on https://chludens.hypotheses.org/1399

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Confoederatio Ludens at the Games & Literature Festival in Marbach

by Eugen Pfister and Adrian Demleitner From 28th to 30th June 2023, the German Literature Archive Marbach has organized a conference on “Games & Literature. On the literacity, research, collection, and archiving of computer games”. The idea for this conference came because, since 2019, the Literaturarchiv has been collecting not only German-language literature but also … Continue reading "Confoederatio Ludens at the Games & Literature Festival in Marbach"

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Confoederatio LudensOct 31, 2023

We'd like to announce a conference we're organising next year, as well as its call for proposal.

This interdisciplinary conference invites abstract and panel propositions on the relationship of early video game history and its material and cultural contexts.

More info under https://gamelab-lausanne.ch/conference-leisure-electronics-and-the-emergence-of-video-games-towards-a-genealogy-of-ludic-practices-and-computing-artefacts

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Conference – Leisure electronics and the emergence of video games: Towards a genealogy of ludic practices and computing artifacts (2-3 May 2024) – GameLab Lausanne

Confoederatio LudensOct 19, 2023

In the second part of his blog post series on researching the Lausanne "Computer" fair, @pyhurel discusses how the fair related to local and global specifics.

The “Computer” exhibition of Lausanne. Part 2: “Esprit Romand” and the “Röstigraben”: https://chludens.hypotheses.org/608

Ever heard of the "Röstigraben"? It's a fun tidbit about Switzerland you should definitly learn about :)

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%B6stigraben

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The “Computer” exhibition of Lausanne. Part 2: “Esprit Romand” and the “Röstigraben”

Context : This paper is part of a dossier about “Computer” exhibition.   – In the first one, I presented my methodological choices, the corpus studied, and the main periods of “Computer”.– In this second one, I address how this show was integrated into a context of regional rivalry– a series of articles to be … Continue reading "The “Computer” exhibition of Lausanne. Part 2: “Esprit Romand” and the “Röstigraben”"

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Confoederatio LudensJun 17, 2023

@eugen_pfister wrote an introductory blog post on our project!

Go forth and read at https://chludens.hypotheses.org/260

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CH-Ludens Kick off. How the Sinergia came into being.

by Eugen Pfister How it all began Our SNSF-Sinergia project unites a dynamic team of 20 researchers across four university locations in Switzerland: The Bern Academy Of the Arts, the University of Bern, the University of Lausanne and the Zurich University of the Arts. We come from different cantons and countries as well as from … Continue reading CH-Ludens Kick off. How the Sinergia came into being.

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