Megadungeon
open access | peer reviewed-
edited by
- Paolo Berti - Ca' Foscari University of Venice - email
- Stefania De Vincentis - Ca' Foscari University of Venice - email
- Gabriele de Seta - University of Bergen - email
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 Megadungeon • Digital media • Topology • Open worlds • Class • Depth • Spatial practice • Blockchain • Volumetry • Critical geography • User Generated Content (UGC) • Tabletop role-playing games • Aesthetics • In-game worldbuilding • Exhibition design • Mapping • Metaphors • Digital folklore • Digital art • Play • Web 3 • Agency • Monster • Music • Contemporary art • The Garden of Earthly Delights • Machine learning • Co-creativity • 0 • Geology of media • New media art • Digital infrastructures • Dungeon • Underground • Imaginary • Dungeons • Infrastructure • Urban studies • Hieronymus Bosch • Postdigital aura • Digital culture • Bestiaries • Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) • Generative Art • Artificial Intelligence (AI) • Ethnomusicology
Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/mag/2724-3923/2023/02 | Published Dec. 19, 2023 | Language en
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