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05/19/2005 Archived Entry: "Entermultimediale 2 and Playful Subjects"

Just returned from two events in Europe: Entermultimediale 2 in Prague, and Playful Subjects in Bristol, so I have a bit of game-chat bliss right now (or jetlag: they both present the same). I think both events were successful, at least from my perspective...although I probably got a bit more out of the Prague festival given my trip to Bristol was plagued by allergies (ah well). Nonetheless, for what I hung in for, I thought there was some interesting work presented at the symposium-- not anything strongly related to game rhetoric or reality genres, but things to think about nonetheless. I quite enjoyed Helen Kennedy and Seth Giddings work on games/players as a system, and the future-scenario presentations were an interesting alternative way to present some ideas that could have just as easily been read off a paper. Which I suppose leads to a critique: written discourse is so very different from spoken discourse; why read off a paper? If the ideas are engaging enough to have written about in the first place, is it really so hard to just talk about them? Sorry, must be a cultural thing, and certainly relates to both events.


(creepy babies on Zizkov tower; kristian lukic, robert praxmarer, florian berger, and denisa kera at Entermultimediale 2; t.l.taylor sets up in the sneezy room in Bristol)

Entermultimediale 2 had it's moments of madness (and a map to venues would have been nice), but fabulous post-presentation discussion. These mixed festivals are nice, as you get a bit of a grab-bag of attendees from a range of disciplines, practices, and perspectives. I'm still mentally ranting from some of these festival discussions, so I'm sure I'll be blogging heavily over the next bit.