[game_preservation] CFP: Curatorship and exhibition of gaming history (Next Gen; deadline Aug 1)

[Rachel "Sheepy" Donahue]

I'm somewhat amused that you replied exactly while I was reading the CFP.

If the deadline weren't 8/1, I'd be tempted.

On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:02:11 -0400, Andrew Armstrong  
<andrew at aarmstrong.org> wrote:


> Neat, so, will someone from this list be contributing then? :)

>

> Andrew

>

> Devin Monnens wrote:

>> Forwarded from Beth A Lameman

>>

>>     I noticed that Eludamos

>>     has a section on "Curatorship and exhibition of gaming history --

>>     problems, opportunities, practices" in its upcoming Special Issue

>>

>>     aka Beth A. Dillon

>>

>>

>>

>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------

>> From: Beth Aileen Lameman <beth at bethaileen.com

>> <mailto:beth at bethaileen.com>>

>> Date: Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:44 AM

>> Subject: CfP: Eludamos Journal Special Issue "Next Gen" (Due Aug 1)

>> To: Magy Seif El-Nasr <magy at sfu.ca <mailto:magy at sfu.ca>>

>>

>>

>> CfP: Eludamos Journal Special Issue "Next Gen"

>> Due August 1, 2009

>>

>> Call for a special issue of Eludamos, titled: "Next Gen."

>>

>> Guest editors are Thomas J. Apperley, Darshana Jayemanne and Christian

>> McCrea.

>>

>> Console gaming has already had more than one 'Next Generation'. PC

>> gamers feverishly upgrade their rigs with each new state of the art

>> FPS. Periodisation is often a major preoccupation for critics and

>> publics interested in other media, but in the case of videogames the

>> rapid pace of technical development seems to set the agenda of

>> generational change. Games are caught up, culturally as well as

>> aesthetically and technically, in their own futurism: each generation

>> claims to be both anticipation and fulfillment of an imagined horizon

>> of experience. Simultaneously, older technologies find new uses and

>> contexts within the very conditions of their supposed obsolescence.

>> Gaming is constantly speculating on its own future and recalling its

>> past in order to coordinate a restless present. Just how coherent are

>> gaming's generations, and is the adoption of such classifications from

>> the wider culture useful or counter-productive for academic game

>> studies?

>>

>> This special issue of Eludamos invites essays on the topic of

>> generational change in gaming, from broad overviews of the critical

>> usefulness of 'official' Next Generations to microhistories of

>> individual game franchises or lineages, from agenda-setting successes

>> to failed attempts that were too soon, too late, or just too bad.

>> Possible avenues of exploration may include:

>> * The New Games journalism, advertising, hype and style in the gaming

>> press * Generational change in academia: Do we need a new Game

>> Studies? * Materiality: Histories of specific devices, console design

>> and futurism. * Audio and graphical standards and the historical

>> status of claims to the realistic * Audio and graphical standards and

>> the historical status of claims to the cinematic * Retrogaming,

>> popping, speedruns, machinima, bitscene music * Curatorship and

>> exhibition of gaming history -- problems, opportunities, practices *

>> Family and gaming: playing across generations * Globalisation and the

>> uneven distribution of gaming's generations * E-waste and the

>> unrecognised costs of generational change

>>

>> The issue is open to papers that go beyond these suggestions, and the

>> editors encourage any innovative approach linking the topics of gaming

>> and generations.

>>

>> All articles undergo a double blind peer review process except for

>> papers submitted to the game review section. We expect all submissions

>> to be in English and accept full papers only. For further

>> specificiations about our submission guidelines please consult

>> http://www.eludamos.org. Submissions for "Next Gen" should go to the

>> Perspectives section of the site.

>> Important dates

>>

>> 1st of August: submission deadline for the upcoming regular issue of

>> Eludamos, as well as the special issue "Next Gen". Submissions should

>> be full papers plus abstracts and bio.

>>

>> 25th of Oct. 2009: publication date

>>

>> We look forward to reading from you soon! Please address any queries

>> and questions specifically regarding the Next Gen special issue to

>> Darshana Jayemanne at escapismvelocity at gmail.

>>

>>

>> --

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>>

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>>

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>> Devin Monnens

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>>

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