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CALL FOR PAPERS: INTERARTES (DEADLINE: JUNE 15 2022)

Call for papers InterArtes, no. 2, 2022 Edited by: Laura Brignoli, Silvia Zangrandi Department of "Humanistic Studies” Università IULM - Milan Hybrid Hybrid conferences, hybrid museum spaces, hybrid uses of materials... the notion of hybrid seems to be the driving force of contemporary life. If in the past hybrid carried... Read more →

BOOK: GIOCARE A CAMMINARE

I am delighted to announce that the third volume in the ongoing series GAME VIDEO ART/STUDIES is now available from Concrete Press: Luca Miranda's Giocare a camminare, the first academic studies of the walking simulator (text in Italian). Giocare a camminare Autore: Luca Miranda Data di pubblicazione: 6 dicembre 2021... Read more →

MEDIA COVERAGE: "SIETE IN UN PAESE MERAVIGLIOSO" (LUDICA MAG)

The excellent online magazine Ludica has published an abridged version of my essay on the Italian carscape simulated in Forza Horizon 2 and included in Marco Benoît Carbone e Riccardo Fassone's compelling anthology Il videogioco in Italia (Mimesis, 2020). Click on the image below to read the full article (text... Read more →

BOOK: DIVERTIRSI DA MORIRE DI NEIL POSTMAN

L'editore Luiss University Press ha appena ristampato Divertirsi da morire. Il discorso pubblico nell'era dello spettacolo (1985), opera seminale dello studioso americano Neil Postman, discepolo di Marshall McLuhan e uno dei fondatori di un approccio noto come media ecology. A lungo introvabile in Italia - era stato pubblicato da Marsilio... Read more →

BOOK: VRAL SEASON ONE (COMING SOON)

I'm happy to announce that Concrete Press will soon release a new book in the ongoing series GAME VIDEO/ART STUDIES: VRAL SEASON ONE, a comprehensive look at the state of machinima today. Introduced in April 2020 amidst a global pandemic, VRAL is a uniquely curated game video experience, offering screenings... Read more →