March 2013
CMS Colloquium presents Jesper Juul: “The Pain of Playing Video Games”
We often talk of video games as being "fun," but this is a mistake. When we play video games, our facial expressions are only occasionally those of of happiness, instead we frown and grimace when fail to achieve our goals. This is the paradox of failure: why do we play video games even though they make us unhappy?
Find out more »February 2014
CMS Colloquium: Miguel Sicart: “Play in the Age of Computing Machinery”
Miguel Sicart will look at the culture, aesthetics, and technological implications of play in the age of computers. He will propose a theory of play that includes the materiality of computation in its definition of the activity, and will suggest that our forms of playing with machines are both forms of surrendering to the pleasures of computation, and forms of creative resistance to the reduction of our worlds to computable events.
Find out more »May 2014
CMS Colloquium: Philip Jones: “Gaming In Color”
"Out of the closet & into the arcade! The story of the queer gaming community, gaymer culture and events, and the rise of LGBTQ themes in video games."
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