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CFP: Transform Reality

Call for submissiones: book on Computer Games and Art: Intersections and Interactions. Deadline for submissions: 31st October 2003. For more info, visit Transform Reality.

CFP: CHI 2004

CHI 2004 has a special section for games. It will take place in Vienna, Austria on April 24-29.

We can be heroes

Colin Harvey writes about serious games at PopMatters, the magazine of global culture.

SIGGRAPH

I won't be attending to SIGGRAPH this year :( I guess I have other priorities now. But if you are lucky enough to be there, you may want to check this workshop out. It's called "Fun & Games: An Introduction to Art-Based Game Modding ".

GGA: Play

The good folks from GameGirlAdvance just launched their Zine. The first issue, edited by Jane "GGA" Pinckard, is about PLAY. I haven't read it all yet, but so far my favorite article is Playing Dress Up.

CFP: "Reading" Sim City

From their site: "2004 marks the 15th anniversary of Will Wright’s “Sim City”, one of the most influential video game (or software toy, if you prefer) of all times. We would like to celebrate the event with a special volume of Ludologica titled “Sim City. The virtual cities”. The book will take the form of a collection of academic essays. It will published in January 2004, first in Italian and then, possibly, in English, by Edizioni Unicopli."
rIf you are interested in participating, please send a 500-1000 word abstract to Matteo Bittanti, the Ludologica editor at mbittanti@libero.it. A one-page curriculum vitae or short biography will also be appreciated.
rFor more info, go here and here.

CFP: The State of Play

The State of Play: Law, Games and Virtual Worlds. November 13-15, 2003. To be held atrNew York Law School in New York City. Proposals are due by July 31, 2003. For more information, visit their site.
rIt's the week after Level Up. How about getting a flight from Utrech to NYC?r

France offers grants for games

The French government will help game developers with cash. They have been doing it with the film industry, so why not with games. Kind of cooler than funding invasions to Iraq, isn't it? (oh, my, here comes my political obsessions again... When will I learn to shut up?)

The research center that came from the North, part II

The Hypermedia Laboratory in University of Tampere has launched their Game Research Lab. This new center, along with Copenhagen's Center for Computer Game Research, contribute even more for Scandinavia being today's game studies' hot spot.

Level Up Conference

The Level Up conference program is online. I will be presenting both a paper and a workshop. The paper is called "Ludologists love stories, too" (I really hope it's my last paper on the subject) and the workshop will be "Games with strong opinions: workshop on videogame rhetoric".