{"50251":{"#nid":"50251","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech and SCAD Announce the Art History of Games Conference","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Savannah College of Art and Design and the Georgia Institute of Technology Digital Media Program will host the first Art History of Games conference Feb. 4-6. The three-day public symposium will bring together experts in game studies, art history and related areas of cultural studies to investigate games as an art form. The conference will be held at the Woodruff Arts Center\u2019s Rich Auditorium in midtown Atlanta, courtesy of the High Museum of Art.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMatthew Maloney, digital animator and associate dean for the SCAD School of Film, Digital Media and Performing Arts, described the Art History of Games conference as timely. \u201cGames and art have connections going back to the early 20th century, but the subject is not very well explored,\u0022 he said. \u0022While there is much discussion on whether games are art, it is often limited to comparisons to Hollywood cinema rather than contemporary art. This symposium will provide a venue for artists, scholars and game developers to expand on games as a form of art as well as set the path for conversations going forward.\u201d\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe conference offers attendees access to leading artists and academics in the gaming industry with panel discussions, presentations and Q\u0026amp;A sessions. Prominent game designers scheduled to speak include John Romero, a creator of iconic titles such as \u201cWolfenstein 3D\u201d and \u201cDoom\u201d; Brenda Brathwaite, who recently received the Vanguard Award for her game \u201cTrain\u201d at IndieCade; and Ian Bogost, associate professor at Georgia Tech\u2019s Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts and founding partner of the award-winning independent video game studio Persuasive Games. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cGames are a part of human culture. They have been for millennia, and we can study them for many reasons: to make better ones and to learn to plumb their depths as players, for example. But perhaps the most important and least common reason is this: to understand their role in our lives,\u201d said Bogost.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to speaking at the conference, Jason Rohrer, creator of the critically acclaimed \u201cPassage\u201d; Tales of Tales, the dynamic duo behind \u201cPath\u201d; and Eric Zimmerman, co-founder of gameLab, also will premiere newly commissioned art games.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOther notable speakers are Christiane Paul, adjunct curator of new media arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art; Henry Lowood, Stanford University\u2019s curator for the history of science and technology collections and film and media collections; Michael Nitsche, digital media scholar and assistant professor at Georgia Tech; and John Sharp, SCAD interactive design and game development and art history professor. Jesper Juul and Frank Lantz also plan to participate in the conference. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe conference is organized and chaired by Bogost, Nitsche and Sharp.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETo see a complete list of featured participants and register to attend, visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.arthistoryofgames.com\u0022 title=\u0022www.arthistoryofgames.com\u0022\u003Ewww.arthistoryofgames.com\u003C\/a\u003E or call 404.253.2759 for more information.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Georgia Tech and SCAD will host the Art History of Games Conference Feb 4-6 at Woodruff Arts Center.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Conference Feb 4-6 at Woodruff Arts Center"}],"uid":"27310","created_gmt":"2009-12-15 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:04:16","author":"David Terraso","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-12-18T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2009-12-18T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"50252":{"id":"50252","type":"image","title":"Art History of Games","body":null,"created":"1449175437","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:43:57","changed":"1475894471","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:11","alt":"Art History of Games","file":{"fid":"190152","name":"art.history.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/art.history.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/art.history.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":31793,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/art.history.jpg?itok=gUAOEfp_"}}},"media_ids":["50252"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.arthistoryofgames.com\/","title":"Art History of Games"}],"groups":[{"id":"1183","name":"Home"}],"categories":[{"id":"143","name":"Digital Media and Entertainment"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaura Diamond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["david.terraso@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}