Sites of Gaming and Arcade Situations
Friday, 21 June 2019, Room A08 1-110
10:00 a.m.
Reception
10:30 - 11:30 a.m.
Britta Neitzel (University of Oldenburg)
Introduction: Turning Non-Places into Places
11:30 - 12:30
Alex Wade (Birmingham City University)
Regulating the Closed World: Surveillance in and around Amusement Arcades in the 1970s and 1980s
Break
14:00 - 15:00
Claudius Clüver (University of Siegen)
Translation of Capital Flows in the Arcade
15:00 - 16:00
Alan Meades (Canterbury Christ Church University)
Coin Slots, Showmen and Sanddancers: the pre-history of the British videogame arcade
16:15 - 17:15
Jaroslav Švelch (Bergen University)
Video Games on the Bus: The Shadow Arcade Industry of 1980s Czechoslovakia
Saturday, 22 June 2019, Room A08 1-102
9:30 a.m.
Reception
10:00 - 11:00
Kieran Nolan (Dundalk Institute of Technology/Trinity College Dublin)
Arcade Materiality Across Analogue and Digital Space
11:00 - 12:00
Cyrus Mobasheri (International College Hannover)
Where Does the Extra Life Come from? Pinball Elements as the Building Blocks of Arcade Games
Break
13:30 - 14:30
Andreas Rauscher (University of Siegen)
Retroarcadia: Reconfigurations of Arcade Gaming's Golden Age
14:30 - 15:30
Concluding discussion
Sites of Gaming: Research Approaches and Constraints
16:00
Meeting of the AG Games
Sites of Gaming and Arcade Situations
International conference
Sites of Gaming and Arcade Situations
The conference focuses on gaming in arcades of various kinds. The special features of the respective games will be analysed and placed in a larger national and cultural context.
On the one hand, it represents a contribution to the cultural history of video games; on the other hand, it is intended to initiate a discussion about a desideratum in the field of research by linking the practice of (video) gaming with the place where it is practised and with other forms of gaming.
Location:
University of Oldenburg
A08 1-110 / A08 1-102
Ammerländer Heerstraße 69
26129 Oldenburg
More information: sites-of-gaming.gameshistory.eu
Contact:
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