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1. Digital Arts and Literature – Is it Just a Game?

   “Games are not serious; digital art and literature are playful; therefore they are not serious”. Formulations such as these are sometimes used when discussing the playfulness of digital art and literature. The origin of this argument is based on the traditional opposition between “serious” and “playful”. Because of their interactive nature, digital art and literature have often been considered as particularly close to play - and to “mass culture”. Depending on the approaches, this proximity is interpreted as an opportunity, or as a risk, as I will show in this article.

   On the one hand, art and play are so closely related that it has become commonplace to assert: “art is play”, “play is art”. On the other hand, it seems equally impossible to deny the existence of playfulness in art and literature. Indeed, is it not one of their fundamental privileges to allow free, unselfish play with the materials, codes and conventions, while science, craft industry, and industrial design are "condemned" to produce and capitalise?

   Patricia Tomaszek - 12.01.2011 - 16:44

2. Why digital games and networks can help us to change reality and generate concrete changes in social environments

   Starting by questioning why digital games and networks can help us to change reality and generate concrete changes in social environments we will research the application of playful techniques and spaces to address the challenges of our present world. We will state that these strategies can be useful to scrutinize specific and real questions. Using social game examples such as Investigate your MP’s Expenses (2009), World Without Oil (2007), Superstruck, Invent the Future (2008), Evoke (2010) and Playing with Poetry (2010), the aim of the paper/presentation is to promote and expand the field of experimental alternate reality games (ARGs) in a broader context. We will analyze some social games such as Farmville or Mafia Wars, derivatives of Facebook networking social programs, and the aim of the work is to research questions like why can players become addicted to this kind of simulation even if these playable environments are monotonous, boring and obvious? Why every day millions of people plant vegetables and flowers in a predictable platform on the web?

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 30.08.2011 - 11:56

3. Networked Improv Narrative (Netprov) and the Story of Grace Wit & Charm: Rob Wittig's Thesis Defense

   This is a recording of the 20 minutes or so of Rob Wittig's thesis presentation and oral exam for the MA at the University of Bergen, which was done on Tuesday, December 13, 2011 via Skype. Wittig's thesis outlines the genesis of a new network based genre at the interstices of game, improvisational theatre, literature, mass media and digital media. It was also the first MA thesis in the UiB Digital Culture program to include a fully developed creative project in electronic literature as well as an excellent theoretical thesis in print.

   Scott Rettberg - 14.12.2011 - 11:50