Mathias Fuchs

Leuphana University, Digital Mediia, Faculty Member

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Mathias Fuchs
--- artist, musican, media critic

Mathias has pioneered in the field of artistic use of game engines in various game art installations. He started the first European Masters Programme in Creative Games at the School of Art & Design at the University of Salford in Greater Manchester. Creative Games is a discipline on the borderline of games, art and critical discourse.

He is currently a professor at Leuphana University Lüneburg. He is also director of the Gamfication Lab at the Centre for Digital Cultures in Lüneburg. He has had sound and media installations in Vienna, London, Mexico City, Tokyo, Helsinki, Stockholm, Norwich, Cairo, Vancouver, Paris, and Providence. Commissioned work for ISEA94 and ISEA2004, resfest, ars electronica, PSi #11, futuresonic, EAST, the Greenwich Millennium Dome. Creative games for museums, urban planning and theatre performances.
Address: Lichtenraderstrasse 39
12049 Berlin / Neukölln
Germany

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Sinn und Sound

The investigation into "Sinn und Sound" (musical meaning - significant sounds) aims to address th... more The investigation into "Sinn und Sound" (musical meaning - significant sounds) aims to address the question of whether auditive objects and structures are capable of communicating meaning, and, if so how this is accomplished. The scope of the term "Sound Art" is much more encompassing than what we call music in the narrow sense of Western classical repertoire of vocal and instrumental music. Sound Art includes the artistic attempts initiated by the Futurists, the musical avantgarde, the fine arts embracing sonic realities and tropes. Sound Art also takes into account contemporary electroacoustic music, sampling, DJ-culture and applied music for TV, radio and the Internet

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Art & Politics of Games

I am interested in games as media. Games might be called the lead media of our society. Games are... more I am interested in games as media. Games might be called the lead media of our society. Games are taking over positions formerly held by television, cinema, and music. They play a pivotal role in the mechanisms transforming our society. Whereas work and religion, and later television, were key to our understanding of the world, we now have play. It is the playstations – and not the workstations – that make the world go round.

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Rethinking Gamification

by Mathias Fuchs and Paolo Ruffino

It seems that gamification is now the keyword for a generation of social entrepreneurs and market... more It seems that gamification is now the keyword for a generation of social entrepreneurs and marketing experts, in perfect and timely combination with the re-evaluation of participatory practices (as also recorded in the art and cultural sector, see Bishop 2012) and the trends of quantification and self-governance (often categorised under the label of the Quantified Self movement). Thus, the question remains: Does gamification need to be rethought?

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Diversity of Play

What we experience today is a diversity of play and the ubiquity of games, making them not only a... more What we experience today is a diversity of play and the ubiquity of games, making them not only a popular medium but also a key medium and probably the leading medium of contemporary society.
The coverage of games across media sectors and social niches also makes them a super-medium, a medium that can easily adopt the styles and modes of predecessor media. Games can cannibalise sister media and pretend to be film, radio, narration,

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Fair enough!

Between Drudgery and “Promesse du Bonheur”

Routledge eBooks, Feb 10, 2017

To many, digital game play is primarily a social experience, a way of connecting with others. The... more To many, digital game play is primarily a social experience, a way of connecting with others. These connections can take several forms depending on the type of game, context and personal relationship. In the literature, however, this complexity has largely been ignored, reducing social relations to simple dichotomies such as "friend or stranger" and "versusor co-player". This paper aims to overcome these simplifications and take a step towards understanding the multidimensional nature of social play. With this goal in mind, a first wave of 37 interviews was conducted with gamers with varying experience. Based on grounded theory, the data were used to build a theoretical framework, consisting of four possible roles another person can assume: witness, co-player, companion and tool. Each of these roles was then further analyzed according to known parameters of social play: spatiality, synchronicity, adversarity and longevity, and validated in a second series of 10 in-depth interviews. Based on this, a two-layered framework for social play research was proposed, whereby both social role and broader context were considered. Using this framework can enable future research to gain a more in-depth and refined understanding of social game experience.

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Phantasmal Spaces: Archetypical Venues in Computer Games

fluID - arena of identities

Artsat

Computer Music Journal, 1995

PlastiCity (Lightwave project, Bradford)

Cultural Politics of Games

ITEM project : Virtually Facticious

The project will research different concepts of 'memory' and its representation in an int... more The project will research different concepts of 'memory' and its representation in an interactive virtual environment. Over the course of the project the participants are engaging in research into a variety of subjects, such as artistic and commercial computer games, online communities, interactivity and communication in shared virtual spaces as well as the different software tools for the construction of virtual environments. BT's technology and IT operations business, BT Exact, is supporting the research project by offering its in-house developed TARA rendering engine for the construction of this virtual roadmap to over 60 years of participants' memories in and around Liverpool. The project also invites project participants and partners to think about the way they visualise memory, how they share their memories and who with. The findings of this research will inform the creation of a virtual environment representing participants' memories and a research report, ready to be presented in December 2004.

Itineraria Picta

transcript Verlag eBooks, Dec 31, 2019

In his text on orientation from 1786 Immanuel Kant (1963, 8) ref lects about how we orient oursel... more In his text on orientation from 1786 Immanuel Kant (1963, 8) ref lects about how we orient ourselves when reasoning, and starts to build up his argument from observations about geographical orientation: In the proper meaning of the word, to orient oneself means to use a given direction (when we divide the horizon into four of them) in order to find the others-literally, to find the sunrise. Now if I see the sun in the sky and know it is now midday, then I know how to find south, west, north, and east. For this, however, I also need the feeling of a difference in my own subject, namely, the difference between my right and left hands.

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Ludoarchaeology

Games and Culture, Aug 21, 2014

Ludoarchaeology is a discipline that is methodologically rooted in archaeology with the aim of fi... more Ludoarchaeology is a discipline that is methodologically rooted in archaeology with the aim of finding forgotten games—and texts on games. The discipline’s objective is to reinterpret the history of games and play via material objects from the past. This essay offers an example of one such case, revisions to Johan Huizinga’s Homo Ludens. In 2012, the author conducted an excavation in Gelderland, near Arnhem in the Netherlands, where Johan Huizinga spent his last years before his death on February 1, 1945. The excavation team found a document that was obviously a manuscript page of a major revision of Huizinga’s Homo Ludens. The text consists of an annotated version of page 41 from the 1938 edition of Homo Ludens with comments that completely change our view of how Huizinga thought about “free play,” rules, and order.

“Sposi, Amici, al ballo, al gioco!”

Unicopli, Apr 2, 2016

Gamen

Historisches Wörterbuch des Mediengebrauchs, 2014

Nordic game subcultures: between LARPers and avant-garde

DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals), Mar 1, 2014

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Introduction:The boundaries of play

Retirada do mundo e dissolução do mundo: noções de Heidegger na era dos jogos de computador

Logos, 2019

Este trabalho indaga se e de que modo os conceitos de Martin Heidegger de Weltentzug e Weltzerfal... more Este trabalho indaga se e de que modo os conceitos de Martin Heidegger de Weltentzug e Weltzerfall , elaborados pelo filosofo para falar de objetos artisticos tradicionais como a pintura, podem ser apropriados para o estudo de artefatos contemporâneos como os jogos digitais. A partir da aspiracao mimetica dos jogos de computador, utilizando exemplos que passam por Tetris (1984) e Assassin’s Creed Unity (2014), o artigo discute o estatuto ontologico do jogo e sua relacao com o mundo, recuperando e reabilitando, neste entremeio, o conceito heideggeriano de Terra .

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