Doris Rusch, MIT Gambit Game Lab
Wednesday April 28
3pm talk, “Purposeful Game Design”
Dr. Rusch discusses how she explores abstract concepts related to the human condition in her game design, primarily using metaphors to find links between sites of strong emotion and game play.
Tiltfactor Laboratory, 304 North Fairbanks, Dartmouth College
Thursday April 29th
Rusch visits 10am -12: Game Design: Values at Play Course
Product Owner: Akrasia
http://gambit.mit.edu/loadgame/akrasia.php
Product Owner, Executive Producer, Lead Designer: The Bridge
http://gambit.mit.edu/loadgame/thebridge.php
Doris C. Rusch holds a postdoctoral position with the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab in the Programme at Comparative Media Studies at MIT. Before that she worked at the Institute for Design and Assessment of Technology at Vienna University of Technology. In her habilitation project titled “Once More with Meaning”, Rusch investigates the medium specific characteristics of digital games and their potential to produce a wide range of emotionally satisfying and deeply meaningful experiences. Although her work is theory-driven, she aims at applicability of her research to actual game design with the goal of pushing the boundaries of games as media. Rusch has an eclectic background having completed studies in German Literature, Philosophy, English and Comparative Literature at the University of Vienna, where she also received her Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics. Her work in computer game studies is part of a larger interest in “narrative worlds” that expands over books, comics, and films.
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Marcin Ramocki, Filmmaker
Tuesday May 11th 2010 at 5:30
Marcin Ramocki, Dartmouth alum from 1995, shows his film on videogame art, 8-Bit. Screening and talk with the filmmaker at 530 pm, Loews Theater, Dartmouth College.
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Lucas Welch, Soliya
Thursday May 13th 2010 at 10am
Lucas Welch, Founder & Chief Innovation Officer of Soliya, a non-profit organization using new technologies to facilitate dialogue between students from diverse backgrounds across the globe. Welch visits 10am -12: Game Design: Values at Play Course to launch the dialogue building game design assignment.
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Digital Humanities Symposium 2010
Friday May 14th, 2010 – All Day Event! Visitors include scholars in digital arts and humanities areas, project demonstrations. Free registration on the website includes breakfast, lunch, reception(s), demonstrations, talks.
A cosponsored Digital Humanities Symposium, Dartmouth College – Visitors Welcome!
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Dr. Helen Nissenbaum
Tuesday May 18th
Visit with Helen Nissenbaum, Professor, New York University, Media, Culture, and Communication & Computer Science; Senior Faculty Fellow, Information Law Institute
Dr. Helen Nissenbaum visits var_d and the co-sponsors of ISTS, Digital Humanities, Philosophy, and Tiltfactor.