"Mindless productivity (and) infomania erode our capacity for significance"
(Michael Heim, Cyberspace: First Steps, 1993: 10)
Upcoming/Recent
October 9, 2009 - "Non chiedete cosa il game design puo' fare per l'universita'. Chiedete piuttosto cosa l'universita' puo' (e deve) fare per il game design" - Italian Game Developers Conference, Milan, Italy
August 12, 13, 14 2009: Visualizing the Dynamics of Knowledge: A Media-X Visualization Vanguard Collaboratory, Wallenberg Hall, Stanford University.
July 16 2009: The Art of Games - Presentation and Panel at Palazzo Cavalli-Franchetti, Venice, Italy
May 29-30 2009 Metaverse U @ Stanford University
May 22 2009: The Art of Games (Aosta, Italy) - (more info)
May 8 2009 E-Sports and Cyberathleticism: A How They Got Game Workshop" @ Stanford University 9 Am - 5 PM
May 6 2009 9 AM Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia - Japanese Pop-Culture lecture series - "Culture videoludiche tra creativita' e socializzazione" [link]
April 24-25 2009 "Play-Machinima-Law" Conference (Law School, Stanford University)
April 20-21 2009 INVENTIO 09 Symposium (Stanford University)
April 10-11 2009 AVATARS. 3rd Annual Comparative Literature Graduate Conference (Stanford University) [additional info]
April 1 2009 "Two or Three Things I know about Videogames" @ The San Francisco Art Institute, lecture, 1 - 3.45 PM - Lynn Hershman Leeson class
January 22 2009 "Ludic War" (Guerra Ludica) @ Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan, Italy, 10 AM - 4 PM, link
Archive
Here is a selection of my past appearances, talks, lectures, and presentations
Interviews [selected/recent]
"Il peggio di internet e' sempre meglio della televisione", di Letizia Tortello, La Stampa, 06 giugno 2010. Download LaStampa06102010
Apogeo Online, November 26, 2008
"Chi ha paura di Grand Theft Auto IV?", a cura di Oliver Broggini, Corriere del Ticino, 17 giugno 2008
"Il videogioco si apre alle masse" a cura di Federico Fasce, Il Manifesto, 5 giugno 2008
"I videogiochi e la loro filosofia" a cura di Grazia Casagrande, Wuz, 28 maggio 2008
Wuz (Italian), May 05, 2007
Il Corriere del Ticino (Italian), April 16, 2007
La Stampa (with Henry Lowood) (Italian), March 30, 2007
Chaplin, Heather (2007) "Is that Just Some game? No, it's a cultural artifact", New York Times, March 12 2007
Digicult (with Domenico Quaranta) (Italian), March 01, 2007
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