[spectre] medi@terra 06 / gaming realities / Athens/GR

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medi at terra
7th International Art & Technology Festival

4 ñ 8 October 06
Athens, Greece
@ Technopolis, Pireos 100

www.mediaterra.org

What role do videogames play in our lives today? As the boundaries 
between the virtual and the real blur more and more in the new gaming 
worlds we have come to inhabit, new conditions arise. Videogames 
encompass ideas, narratives, points of view and ideologies. They form 
images, they develop new aesthetics and offer new ways of 
understanding. Videogames express and reflect todayís world ñ they 
are a part of it. New identities appear, new roles are defined, new 
mentalities are being born. With the theme Gaming Realities 
Medi at terra 06 aims to explore the different dimensions and 
developments in the gaming fields and the impact they have on the 
different fields of society today. This yearís programme features the 
following activities and events

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Conference ëGaming Realities: the Challenge of Digital Cultureí
A 3 day conference [6 ñ 8 October 06] with guest and participant 
speakers [game designers, artists, researchers, developers, 
journalists, writers, theorists] who are invited to adopt a stance 
and express their thoughts on the crucial issues and concerns about 
videogames today.

Key topics:
Gaming Identities * Gaming Worlds * Game politics * Gaming 
environments * Gaming Narratives * Gaming Technologies * Game as Art 
& Gaming Art

Keynote speakers:
Espen Aarseth - Matt Adams (Blast Theory) - Tom & Vicky Arundel 
(Introversion Software) - Adrian David Cheok - Julian Dibbell  - 
Gonzalo Frasca - Margarete Jahrmann - Kristian Lukic -  Frans Mayra - 
Micheal Mateas - Julian Oliver - Celia Pearce  - Eric Zimmerman

[online registration available at www.mediaterra.org]

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Exhibition ëAlter Gamingí
Game installations * Political games * Game mods * Text adventures * 
Game multiplayer environments * Machinimas * Sound based games

30 game projects by independent creators and artists from the 
international field that work on the new media and explore the 
possibilities given by the videogaming platforms. Different ëunseení 
sides of todayís gaming realm are proposed with games characterised 
for their interdisciplinary character, the socio-political messages 
they convey, the technical and aesthetic innovations they introduce 
and the subversion of game standards imposed by the gaming industry.

Featuring games by:
Christoph Anthes - Blast Theory - Benjamin Chang - Dimi Christopoulos 
ñ Devart - Eastwood Group - Sylvia Eckermann - Gerald Nestler - 
Christof Cargnelli - Oliver Irschitz ñ Fiambrera - David Gauthier - 
Henri Marino - Laurie Prevot - Jean Batiste Spieser - Troy Innocent - 
Introversion Software - The Ludic Society - The mamayans - Michael 
Mateas & Andrew Stern - Panagiotis Koutlemanis - Dimitris Dinieas - 
Axel Stockburger - Persuasive Games ñ Molleindustria - Nick Montfort 
- Personal Cinema - Persuasive Games ñ ATI - Prof. Marie-Helene 
Tramus - Cedric Plessier - Orna Portugaly - Daphna Talithman - Sharon 
Younger - Serious Games Interactive - Axel Stockburger -  Tale of 
Tales - Julian Oliver - Steven Pickles ñ sheismartha - Alexandros 
Plakidas Dasios -  University of the Aegean

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Screenings/ La petite Anthologie de Machinimas
A compilation by Xavier Lardy (founder of machinima.fr) presenting 
some of the most interesting machinima works created in the last 
years. A collaboration of Paris Cinema, the Forum des Images and 
Machinima.fr that premiered in Paris last July.

Including projects by:
Ethan Vogt - Bernie Burns - Dave Lloyd and Matt Kelland - Pierce 
Portocarrero - Hugh Hancock - Ezra Ferguson and Terran Gregory - 
Katherine Anna Kang - Paul Marino - Friedrich Kirschner - G Hoffmann 
- Alex Chan

>>  PLUS!
Special  Sound performances & parties
by the Videogame Orchestra
Mathias Fuchs & Oliver Farshi
that mix old video game tunes with contemporary electronic sounds 
offering a different unique navigation in an audiovisual environment

More information & details
www.mediaterra.org
or contact us
info at mediaterra.org
tel +302106460748
fax +302106470069

Organised by
Fournos, Center for Digital Culture

With the collaboration and support of
Hellenic Ministry of Culture, General Secretariat of Youth, British 
Council, American Embassy, French Institute of Athens, Embassy of 
Switzerland, Embassy of Austria, Technopolis, AKTO

Sponsors
Sony Playstation, Sony, FNAC

Internet Sponsor
Forthnet

Media Sponsors
Computer Games, Game Pro, Ozon magazine, MAD TV, Rock Fm, Games 
Radio, Highlights, Ozon, Start, Videorama, Cultureguide.gr