Hi everyone,
Mary Flanagan of Dartmouth College and the Tiltfactor game research lab is giving a keynote presentation this Thursday, 2/28 at the Grad Center as part of the Minding the Body: Dualism and its Discontents conference. More information is below — thought Games Network members would be interested! Many thanks to Jason Neilsen, one of the conference organizers, for sending us the details.
We’d love to hear a report back if anyone does go, especially a short write up we can post on the Games Network blog. If you’re interested in writing something please get in touch!
All best,
Maura
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Mary Flanagan (Dartmouth College)
“Never Mind the Body, Here’s a Gamepad? Considering Embodiment in The Age of Play“
Thursday, February 28, 2013
4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
C204-C205
Also available as a live streaming video (link will be available shortly before the presentation on Thursday, Feb. 28)
http://videostreaming.gc.cuny.edu/videos/livestreams/page1/
This keynote presentation explores a pervasive onscreen/offscreen split of identification and the body in what we could now call The Age of Play. Citing examples from artists’ work and popular culture, with a focus on games, Flanagan leads the audience on an investigation of current trends that are in diametrical opposition: on the one hand, a hunger for embodied, resonant experience; and on the other, a desire for control for the body, a recurring motif in fields from psychology to public health, manifesting in plastic surgery and digital manipulation of the body.
Conference website: https://mindingthebodyconference.wordpress.com/about-the-conference/opening-keynote/
