[India] Playing at a Distance:From Interaction to Intra-action in Video Games - Talk on October 23, 2021

[DiGRA India]

Dear All,

We hope this email finds you well. We would like to invite you all to the
talk "Playing at a Distance.From Interaction to Intra-action in Video
Games” that will be delivered by Sonia Fizek. The talk is scheduled on
October 23, 2021 at 7 PM IST. We will be sharing the meeting link very soon
on our social media handles and even through email.

Link to the facebook event: https://fb.me/e/1RxSI9iqe

We look forward to your participation.


*Title of the Talk: **Playing at a Distance.From Interaction to
Intra-action in Video Games *

*Abstract: *

Do we play games or do games play us? Is non-human play a mere paradox or
the future of gaming? And what do video games have to do with quantum
theory? In my talk, I will engage with those and many more daunting
questions, embarking on a ludic journey through a variety of play formats
and practices, which require surprisingly little human action. The driving
concept I want to introduce in the talk is that of distance or dis-play. It
opens the possibility to rethink computer mediated play and challenge the
common perception of video games as inherently interactive. And so, to play
at a distance is to be at a distance from an active and direct moment of
play, to delegate the immediate action towards the machine, participating
in an algorithmic spectacle instead. To dis-play is also to participate as
one of possible agents in a distributed algorithmic entanglement. Agency,
as I will argue, is not a property a player has but a force distributed
within and across the ludic entanglement.

*Speaker Bio: *
Sonia Fizek is a digital wanderer and a ludic thinker; on a more formal
note, a digital games and media theorist. She is also an associate editor
of the Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds, a leading international
journal publishing academic work in the field of game studies. Sonia is a
professor at the Institute of Game Development and Research, Cologne.

Best wishes,
DiGRA India Team
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