Journal | magazén
Monographic journal issue | 4 | 2 | 2023
This special issue outlines a new model capable of encompassing the complexity of contemporary digital ecosystems: the ‘megadungeon’. The articles included in this collection approach the megadungeon model from different angles and scales, contributing to an exploratory, speculative, and necessarily partial mapping of this media theoretical framework.
Keywords The Garden of Earthly Delights • Metaphors • In-game worldbuilding • Volumetry • Topology • Urban studies • Machine learning • Artificial Intelligence (AI) • Bestiaries • Underground • Dungeons • Digital media • Generative Art • Exhibition design • Aesthetics • Contemporary art • Agency • New media art • Spatial practice • Music • Critical geography • Monster • Digital culture • Web 3 • 0 • Infrastructure • Dungeon • Geology of media • Mapping • Megadungeon • Hieronymus Bosch • Postdigital aura • Tabletop role-playing games • Imaginary • Ethnomusicology • Depth • User Generated Content (UGC) • Digital folklore • Open worlds • Co-creativity • Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) • Play • Blockchain • Digital art • Digital infrastructures • Class
Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/mag/2724-3923/2023/02 | Published Dec. 19, 2023 | Language en
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