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Playing with the unspeakable: emotions, meaning and transgressive games

Torill Elvira Mortensen(Speaker)

Center for Digital Play

Activity:

Talk or presentation types

Lecture and oral contribution

Activity Information

Activity type

Lecture and oral contribution

Attending event

Existence and Emotion in Play

Event type

Seminar

Event date

25/05/2018 – 25/05/2019

Event location

Universitetet i Bergen, Media CityBergenNorway

Time period

25/05/2018

Degree of recognition

International

Description

Foredrag på seminar i forbindelse med forskningsprosjektet Games and Transgressive Aesthetics, Universitetet i Bergen, Norge

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We tend to think about the unspeakable as the horrible, awful or shocking, and we find all of this in transgressive games. But it can also be the difficult, the ambivalent, and that which counters the hegemony or goes against the norm. In a search for a model of meaning-making in games, this talk discusses that which can be best expressed through process and experience, and that experience is the highly mediated procedurally based presence which a digital game can offer. Starting out as a discussion of reader response theory as Mortensen and Jørgensen presents it in their upcoming book, this presentation discusses norm-breaking through form and content, and how to research and critically analyse it., opens in new tab