Grand Text Auto

Rachel Donahue of the University of Maryland, College Park is gathering information about records management and preservation of video games with a survey – two surveys, actually: One for those in industry and another for the gaming community. She’s seeking your responses now, as she’ll be presenting preliminary results at the end of the month.

DAC09 (a.k.a. Digital Arts and Culture 2009) will be held stateside, at UC Irvine, and is sure to offer a fantastic collection of papers, events, art, and discussion. “This iteration of DAC will dwell on the specificities of embodiment, cultural, social and physical location with respect to digital technologies and networked communications.”

This year’s DAC will feature several themes, and papers are to be submitted with one or more of these in mind:

• Embodiment and performativity
• After mobile media
• Software/platform studies
• Environment/sustainability/climate change
• Interdisciplinary pedagogy
• Cognition and creativity
• Sex and Sexuality