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09 22 2008
GameCulture
Game: La Molleindustria's Free Culture Game
by Matteo Bittanti
Indie game factory La Molleindustria has released "a tiny abstract pretentious game called Free Culture Game" [...] whose "goal is to provide a simplified interactive rendition of theories and propositions about knowledge capitalism (es. Negri, Lessing, Wark)."
09 21 2008
GameCulture
Event: View Conference 2008 (Turin, Italy, Nov 11-14 2008)
by Matteo Bittanti
Event: View Conference 2008 (Turin, Italy, Nov 11-14 2008) VIEW Conference is the premiere international event in Italy on Computer Graphics, Interactive Techniques, Digital Cinema, 3D Animation, Gaming and VFX. This year, VIEW comes with a new theme: DIGITAL TRANSFORMATIONS. VIEW 2008 will continue to focus on exploring the increasingly fluid boundary between real and digital worlds. Through lectures, meetings, tributes, exhibits, screenings and demo presentations VIEW will reveal the new digital frontier sweeping from cinema to architecture, from automotive design to advertisement, from medicine to videogames.
07 01 2008
GameCulture
News: Neural 30 is available
by Matteo Bittanti
News: Neural 30 is available The new issue of  Neural is out with 16 pages in color and a brand new graphic layout. The cover story is "Dangerous Games". Lots of juicy articles inside. 
05 19 2008
GameCulture
Event: Innovation Salon V: The Gaming (R)EvolutionThe Gaming (R)Evolution: Creating Social Change Through Games
by Matteo Bittanti
Celebrate 30+ years of innovation, art and community at the Yerba Buena Center of the Arts on June 3 2008 in San Francisco! Innovation Salon V: The Gaming (R)Evolution: Creating Social Change Through Games New media and alternate reality games are engaging new and more diverse audiences than ever before. In fact, games developed with a social change and/or education agenda are starting to explode into diverse social, educational and business environments.
02 14 2008
GameCulture
Event: ToShare 2008 (Turin, March 11-16 2008)
by Matteo Bittanti
Event: ToShare 2008 (Turin, March 11-16 2008) The city of Turin will host the fourth edition of the Piemonte Share Festival from 11 to 16 March 2008. The festival promises to be at the cutting edge of the vast cultural programme of events lined up for the city currently brandishing the title 2008 World Design Capital. Steering us round this wonderful artistic adventure is Bruce Sterling, guest curator and chairman of the jury that has selected the work on show.
12 29 2007
GameCulture
Article: The Lost Metaworld
by David Cuciz
Article: The Lost Metaworld The most famed and discussed metaworld is Second Life, Linden Lab's ecosystem that features an internal economy, an evolving social structure, and a hybrid status - it is, after all, a wannabe-game in an eternal sandbox-mode. So much has been written about Second Life: this virtual world has been both lauded and reviled, because this space offers is a totally new way to live the virtual community. But is it really so?
12 07 2007
GameCulture
Event: Festival of Architecture (Modena, December 7, 2007)
by Matteo Bittanti
Event: Festival of Architecture (Modena, December 7, 2007) Videogames and virtual spaces are the focus of today's agenda at the annual Festival of Architecture in Modena, Italy. Among the others, several game scholars from the University of Bologna will be presenting a work-in-progress research on avatars, while Matteo Bittanti will talk about the new geographies of videogames. Moreover, during the festival Agata Meneghelli's recently published Ludologica book on god games, Inside the screen will be officially presented.

 

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