VIDEO: JAKE ELLIOTT, JENNA NG AND JOSEPH DELAPPE

I PRIMI TRE GAME TALK SONO DISPONIBILI IN FORMATO VIDEO. CLICCA SULLE IMMAGINI SOTTOSTANTI PER VEDERLI.

THE FIRST THREE GAME TALKS ARE AVAILABLE IN VIDEO FORM. CLICK ON THE IMAGES BELOW TO WATCH THEM.

PHOTOS: JENNA NG'S GAME TALK #2

ON MARCH 13, 2019, PROF. JENNA NG TALKED ABOUT THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF MACHINIMA. IN HER CELEBRATION TO EPHEMERALITY, SHE ADDRESSED THE TRAJECTORY OF AN ARTFORM SITUATED BETWEEN EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA, VIDEO ART, AND GAMING.

See more photos from Jenna NG’s presentation here.

GAME TALK #2: JENNA NG (MARCH 13 2019)

GET READY FOR THE SECOND GAME TALK OF THE YEAR, ORGANIZED IN COLLABORATION WITH THE MILAN MACHINIMA FESTIVAL!

JENNA NG

MACHINIMA AND THE ALLURE OF EPHEMERALITY: GAMEPLAY, LIVE STREAMS & DIGITAL CULTURE

March 13 2019, 18:00 - 19:00

Aula 135 (IULM 1)

Università IULM

Via Carlo Bo, 1

20143 Milano

Free and open to the public, Please RVSP

The presentation is in English

In collaboration with the MILAN MACHINIMA FESTIVAL

In this talk, Jenna Ng will address the explosion of interest in the live streaming of gameplay as witnessed in the popularity of Twitch, whose latest number of daily active users has reached 15 million, as well as other major platforms such as YouTube Gaming, Mixer, and Facebook Live. Specifically, the talk will link the current phenomenon of video game live streams with machinima and its origins in game demos and captured videogame play, arguing not only for live streams to be the next logical evolution for machinima, but also for a critical theorisation of screen media that pursues a realist trajectory, one which potentially works its way from neorealist cinema to drone culture.

Jenna Ng first trained as a finance lawyer in Singapore and London before switching to film studies, in which she obtained a PhD from University College London (UCL), and currently teaches film and interactive media at the University of York, UK. She is the editor of Understanding Machinima: Essays on Filmmaking in Virtual Worlds (Bloomsbury, 2013) and her current book project, Undoing the Screen: Space, Spectacle, Surface (Palgrave), explores the effacing of screen boundaries in relation to contemporary display technologies and the resulting erasure between images, objects, surfaces and spaces.

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JENNA NG

IL MACHINIMA E IL FASCINO DELL'EFFIMERO: GAMEPLAY, LIVE STREAMS E CULTURA DIGITALE

Nel suo talk, Jenna Ng discute il crescente interesse per il live streaming videoludico attestato dalla popolarità di Twitch, il cui numero di utenti attivi su base quotidiana ha superato i quindici milioni e a cui si aggiungono piattaforme come YouTube Gaming, Mixer e Facebook Live. Secondo Jenna, il fenomeno dei live stream dei videogiochi rappresenta un'evoluzione diretta del machinima e della cultura demo e dei replay. La studiosa propone inoltre un inquadramento teorico dei media a schermo che persegue l’imperativo estetico del realismo collegando il cinema neorealista alla machine vision dei droni. La presentazione è in lingua inglese.

Formatasi inizialmente come avvocato finanziario a Singapore e a Londra, per dedicarsi successivamente alla filmologia, Jenna Ng ha conseguito un dottorato di ricerca alla University College London (UCL). Oggi insegna cinema e media interattivi all'Università di York, nel Regno Unito. Ha curato l’antologia Understanding Machinima: Essays on Filmmaking in Virtual Worlds (Bloomsbury, 2013) e sta lavorando a Undoing the Screen: Space, Spectacle, Surface (Palgrave), che esplora il concetto di bordo in relazione alle nuove tecnologie di visualizzazione e la cesura tra immagini, oggetti, superfici e spazi.

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NEWS: INTRODUCING THE 2019 GAME TALKS

SIAMO FELICI DI ANNUNCIARE I GAME TALKS 2019 ALL’Università IULM.

Presentati dal Master of Arts in Game Design dell'università IULM, i GAME TALKS celebrano la cultura, l’arte e la creatività dei videogiochi attraverso presentazioni, performance e seminari gratuiti ed aperti al pubblico (previa registrazione). Quest’anno proponiamo otto incontri rispetto ai sei dell’anno scorso. Guardatevi l’anteprima e restate sintonizzati!

GAME TALKS 2019

We are thrilled to announce the 2019 GAME TALKS series at IULM University.

Presented by the Master of Arts in Game Design at IULM University, GAME TALKS are lectures, presentations, and performances that celebrate the culture, art, and creativity of video games. All events are free and open to the public (please RSVP). This year we will be offering eight special events versus last year’s six. Watch the preview below and stay tuned!

GAME TALKS 2019