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