Friday, 12 February, 2010
in
Torg 3100 at Virginia Tech
Prof. Zach Whalen will present:
game(text): videogames and textual aesthetics
Are videogames uniquely expressive artifacts, or are they simply new platforms for textual meaning? How do videogames mean, and in what ways are their meanings shaped by their affordances -- digital or otherwise? In this lecture, I investigate these questions by connecting one narrow vector for expression -- videogame typography -- with emerging critical conversations around the aesthetics of videogame hardware and software.
