Gaming utopia : ludic worlds in art, design, and media / Claudia Costa Pederson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pederson, Claudia Costa, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Video games--Social aspects.

Video games.

Utopias.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 266 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2021]

Summary:

"In Gaming Utopia: Ludic Worlds in Art, Design, and Media, Claudia Costa Pederson analyzes modernist avant-garde and contemporary video games to challenge the idea that gaming is an exclusively white, heterosexual, male, corporatized leisure activity and reenvisions it as a catalyst for social change. By looking at over fifty projects that together span a century and the world, Pederson explores the capacity for sociopolitical commentary in virtual and digital realms and highlights contributions to the history of gaming by women, queer, and transnational artists. The result is a critical tool for understanding video games as imaginative forms of living that offer alternatives to our current reality. With an interdisciplinary approach, Gaming Utopia emphasizes how game design, creation, and play can become political forms of social protest and examines the ways that games as art open doors to a more just and peaceful world"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The Avant-Garde Plays

Action, Participation, and the Digital Avant-Garde

Cybernetic Ecologies of Art and Counterculture

Gaming Electronic Civil Disobedience

A Dreampolitik of Persuasive and Other Queer Games

Conclusion: Unfinished Processes.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780253054494

0253054494

9780253054524

0253054524

OCLC:

1158505793