Thanks to CMRN and Michael at Ranged Touch, for their Game Studies Study Buddies podcast episode on my book, ON VIDEO GAMES. Check it out here: http://rangedtouch.com/2020/07/31/25-murray-on-video-games/
Now Online: Video Games as Visual Culture
My course FILM 80V Video Games as Visual Culture is now being offered as a UCSC Summer Online course beginning this summer. For 2020, I’m piloting an intensive 5-week version of the course. In the future, it will be offered in summers, as well as at least once at its normal 10-week length, during the normal academic year. I developed this course in 2009 to introduce the study of video games through their cultural meanings, visual, theoretical and social contexts.
Art Journal Summer 2020 Special Focus on Games and Landscape
The Summer 2020 issue of Art Journal is here, and features my special focus dossier on game space and landscape, marking the first time video games have been included in the publication, since its beginnings in 1941. The issue and my project, Horizons Already Here, can be viewed for free, until the end of September— see below. My heartfelt appreciation goes out to all my collaborators and colleagues who made the special focus possible!
Forum
Soraya Murray
Horizons Already Here: Video Games and Landscape
Soraya Murray
Artist’s Project: Harun Farocki’s Parallel
Dorothy R. Santos
Domain Errors within Interactive Speculative Space(s)
Eugénie Shinkle
Of Particle Systems and Picturesque Ontologies: Landscape, Nature, and Realism in Video Games
Alenda Y. Chang
Rambunctious Games: A Manifesto for Environmental Game Design
Hava Aldouby
An Outsider in Grand Theft Auto: Phil Solomon
Interview with Phil Solomon
Dorothy R. Santos
From Pixels to Text: Articulations of the Body in Digital Landscapes and Imagined Space(s)
Tracy Fullerton
A Year at Play in the Woods of Walden Pond
COLL.EO
Artist’s Project: The Long Road of Silicon
