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Our program is up! Feast your eyes on the dazzling array of intellectual muscle at the Extending Play conference.
Exciting academic panels, innovative workshops, novel keynotes, cutting-edge art and performance, interactive games, and even a party Saturday night! Extending Play promises to be an amazing event, and we are thrilled to have so many wonderful and engaging presentations.
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Friday, April 19
Rutgers University, Vorhees Mall. Borrowed from neil alejandro @Flickr.
Early Registration and Sign In : 11:00am – 12:30pm
Opening reception: 12:30pm – 1:00pm
Session I: 1:15pm – 2:45pm
Art, Life, Performance
The Play of Ideas: Words of Working Artists, Images by Children
Anna Beresin, The University of the Arts
Performing Operations on the Edge of Realities
Erin Heisel, New York University
Poetic Ethnography: Framing a New Discipline and “Playing” at Performance
Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon, Temple University
Playing with the Verité: Jean Rouch, Ethno-Fiction and Contemporary Documentary Practice
Damien Stankiewicz, Temple University
Moderator: Camille Reyes
Soundscapes
Audio Games: Virtual Space & Gamers as Constructed by Listening
Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo, Cornell University
They Think That I’m Their Dinner, Not Their Friend: A Cheap Jurassic Park Themed Blockbuster Movie Cash-in Amusement Park Ride Through the Racialized Soundscape of Raleigh, NC
Seth Mulliken, North Carolina State University
Playing the Mobile Sound Studio with “City Ditties”
Samuel Thulin, Concordia University
Moderator: Frank Bridges
Workshop:
The Play of Spreading Misinformation in the News: Is Deception a Game?
Rob Spicer, DeSales University
The philosophy of balls. Image borrowed from @Doug88888@Flickr.
Balls
Hitting Walls: Captured Play
Carlin Wing, New York University
Trade-off: A Participatory Ethics Game
Karen Schrier, Marist College
Bouncing and Time
Peter Douglas McDonald, University of Chicago
Moderator: Bryan Sacks
Play with Social Media
The “Rush” of Mediated Play
Mary Chayko, College of Saint Elizabeth
“Nobody Cares, Apostolate”: Policing the Boundaries between Work and Play on Reddit.com
Kathryn Thompson, Indiana University
Doing What You Love: Fashion Blogging and Curation as Play
Brooke Erin Duffy, Temple University
How Wikipedia Became an MMORPG
R. Stuart Geiger, UC Berkeley
Moderator: Sheena Raja
Play, Grow, Learn: Childhood & Education
Ludwig and the Gamification of Education
Michael G. Wagner, Drexel University
Learning the Community College through Living World Games
Christina Bethel, East Carolina University
Ludi-economicus? The Play of the Market in and for Children’s Consumer Cultures
Daniel Cook, Rutgers University
Engaging Childhood: Interactivity and the Augmented Reality Toy
Meredith A. Bak, Brown University
Moderator: Xiaofeng Li
Workshop:
Playing with Presentation: Unconventional Alternatives to Boring Bullet Points
Tony Doody, Rutgers University
Michael Abdallah, Rutgers University
Brian MacDonald, Rutgers University
Outdoor chess. Image borrowed from rusworks @Flickr.
Play a Game, See a Show: Games, Art, Performances, and Original Works: 5:00pm-7:00pm
Conduit
Erin McNeil, Savannah College of Art and Design
Andrew Hieronymi, Pennsylvania State University
Pocket Ritual: Transforming Ordinary Tasks into Steps on the Hero’s Journey through Symbolic Play
Doris Rusch, DePaul University
Data Play
Rachel M. Magee, Drexel University
Meet the Middletons
Lauren Fenton, Veronica Paredes, Susana Ruiz, University of Southern California
OkMatch!: A Dating Game for the Digital Age
Whitney Erin Boesel, UC Santa Cruz
Audio Games
Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo, Cornell University
WORKgame: Reviving Manufacturing through Play
Jessica Kindred, The College of New Rochelle
On Pressing Play
Ri Pierce-Grove, Columbia University
Bringing Out the Gepetto in All of Us: How 3D Printing is Revolutionizing the Way We Play
Stephanie Santoso, Cornell University
The Moving Experience: Storytelling and the Use ofNatural User Interface (NUI) in Combining Live and Mediated Performance
Elaine Sponholtz, University of Florida
Saturday, April 20
Image borrowed from Profound Whatever @Flickr.
Breakfast (Provided): 8:00am-9:00am
Sexuality & Fetish in Play
Flirting with Disaster: Playing with Generations and Sex in Young Queer Digital Spaces
Stephen Bernardini, Rutgers University
Rih Rih (Re)Vision
Tracy Jeanne Rosenthal, California Institute of the Arts
Attention Whores and Ugly Nerds: Policing Gender and Authenticity at GameCons
Nina Huntemann, Suffolk University
Moderator: Sean Leavey
Playing Digital: Making and Working Online
Whistle While You Work: The Immaterial Labor of Disney Theme Park Fans
John Campbell, Temple University
Forging a Gamework: The “Indie RPG Design Community” as a Culture of Production
William White, Penn State Altoona
The Supercut: Meme and Montage in the Pirate Public Sphere
Alston D’Silva, UC Santa Barbara
Never Gonna GIF You Up: Re-Playing Memory and the GIF Economy
Graig Uhlin, New York University
Moderator: Anne Gilbert
Dark Play
Cardsharps and Spoilsports
Mathias Fuchs, Lüneburg University
Excessive Games
Tommy Rousse, IT University of Copenhagen
Darkly Playing Others: The Aesthetics of Abusive Game Design
Miguel Sicart & Doug Wilson, IT University of Copenhagen
No Fun: Failure as the True Subject of All Games
Jesper Juul, New York University
Moderator: Aaron Trammell
Workshop:
Locating Agency in Major Sport “Cheating Scandals”
Bryan Sacks, Rutgers University
Keynote I: 10:45am – 12:00pm
Fred Turner, Stanford University
Stephen Duncombe, New York University
Counterculture, Play, and Political Change
Moderator: Christina Dunbar-Hester
Lunch (Provided): 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Affects of play. Image borrowed from www.DanielLeePhotography.co.uk @Flickr.
Romance & Death: Video Games and Gender
Strange Bedfellows: Subjectivity, Romance, and Video Games
Shira Chess, Miami University
Killing for Girls: Predation Play and Female Empowerment
Elena Bertozzi, LIU Post
Lara Croft, Women, and the Tropes They Are Assigned To in Digital Games
Matthew Calverley, University of Toronto
Playing with your Self-Representation: Gender in Online Games – From Fly Guys to Shy Guys
Rabindra Ratan, Michigan State University
Tracy Kennedy, Brock University
Moderator: Katie McCollough
Bodies & Embodiment
Hyperdividuation 2.0
Carolyn Kane, Hunter College
Allowing for the “As-If,” “What-If” and “Something More”: The Embodiment, Vitality, and Ethical Responsiveness of Play
Tara Woodyer, University of Portsmouth
Facing the Dark Mother (in Video Games)
Christopher Kampe, North Carolina State University
OKMatch!: A Dating Game for the Digital Age
Whitney Erin Boesel, UC Santa Cruz
Moderator: Jessica Crowell
Play Between Structures: Exploring the Professionalization of Video Games
Making Gameplay, Making Game Pay: The Structure and Practice of Gameplay Commentary on YouTube
Hector Postigo, Temple University
Institutionalizing Secrecy: Professionalizing of the “Dark Art” of Game Development
Casey O’Donnell, Michigan State University
Copyright, Technology, and Professional Play
Greg Lastowka, Rutgers University
I’m More than a Gamer, I’m an Entertainer: Live-streaming and the Future of Game Broadcasting
TL Taylor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Moderator: Nadav Lipkin
Workshop:
Protest as Play and Play and Protest: A Workshop on Creative Resistance
Anna Feigenbaum & Anja Kanngieser, Creative Resistance Research Network
Moderator: Jessa Lingel
Consumption, Play, Destruction. Image borrowed from Richard Smallbone@Flickr.
Politics and/of Play
MTV’s Power of 12 and Changes in Political Engagement Following Election-themed Gameplay
Michelle C. Forelle, New York University
Maxwell Foxman, Columbia University
The Joker’s Detonators
Jonah Bossewitch, Columbia University
Seeing and Playing as Labor: Towards a Visual Materialist Pedagogy of Video Games Through Walter Benjamin
Ergin Bulut, University of Illinois, Institute of Communications Research
Playing with the Father, Playing for the Nation: Play and Affective Labor in the Public Performances of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk and Ulku Adatepe
Rustem Ertug Altinay, New York University
Moderator: Jonathan Bullinger
Beehive Hairdos and Poisoned Macaroons: Playing with the Past
Play-Publics and Heritage
Mary Rizzo, Independent Scholar
Grandma Graffiti
Michelle Moravec, Rosemont College
Reacting to the Past
Abigail Perkiss, Kean University
Continuing the Revolution Game
Maylou & Jerome Bongiorno, Independent Scholars
Moderator: Andrew Salvati
Destruction & Disruption
What We Lost in the Storm
Samuel Tobin, Fitchburg State University
Playing with Boundaries: Adaptation, Self-Identification and The Clown
Nico Dicecco & Julia Lane, Simon Fraser University
Play-Spaces and their Materiality
Jana Wendler, University of Manchester
No Spectators, (Almost) No Rules: Burning Man as an Adult Adventure Playground
Travis Mushett, Columbia University
Moderator: Aaron Trammell
Workshop:
Using Play instead of Points for Meaningful Gamification
Scott Nicholson, Syracuse University
Moderator: Jacob Sanchez
Keynote II: 4:30pm – 5:45pm
Trevor Pinch, Cornell University
Paul Miller, aka DJ Spooky, The European Graduate School
Playing With Analog and Digital Media
Moderator: Aram Sinnreich
Closing reception: 5:45pm – 6:30pm
Performance & Party w/DJ Spooky: 6:30pm – 7:30pm
Image borrowed from richard.pyrker@Flickr.