Program Athens 2022

Thursday September 1

09.00 Coffee

09.15 Introduction

Chair: Kostas Karpouzis

09.40  Digital Games, Image-Consciousness and Superreality (abstract)

Daniel O'Shiel

10.10 Local Coherentism of Perceived Reality in Video Games and Virtual Worlds - A Husserlian Approach (abstract)

Tom Poljansek

10.40 Techno-Somatic Performance in Digital Space (abstract)

Michail Kouratoras

11.10 Break 

11.20 Perceiving Gameworlds: Actual, Fictional, and Imaginative Perceptions (abstract)

Nele van de Mosselaer

11.50 Understanding Perception in Games Through Narrative (abstract) 

Elina Roinioti

12.20 Lunch

Chair: Anita Leirfall

14.00  Perceptual Objects in Synthetic Realities (abstract)

John R. Sageng

14.30  The Veridical View of VR (abstract)

Casey Landers

15.00 Why Digital Objects Won’t Help Virtual Realists (abstract)

Alex Murphy

15.30 Break

15.40 Enactive Imagining in the VR (abstract)

Zuzanna Rucinska

16.10 Filling in the Blanks: Roguelike Video Games and ASCII Graphics (Or, Why Your Imagination is the Best Graphics Card) (abstract)

James Cartlidge

16.40  End of first day.

19.00 Common Gathering and Dinner

Friday September 2

Chair: Elina Roinioti

10.00 Simulating Vision: Spatial Presence in Virtual Reality (abstract)

Dooley Murphey

10.30 Multistable Perception in Non-Euclidean Videogames (abstract)

Magdalena Grigoriadu Giorgos Loukakis

11.00 Break

11.10 Spaces: The Design of an Immersive Playable (abstract)

Angeliki Chrysanthi, Picharides Giannis

11.40  The Way We Are in Virtual Space (abstract)

Anita Leirfall 

12.10  Lunch

Chair: Dooley Murphey

14.00 Gender Representation in Game Narrative and Mechanics (abstract)

Kostas Karpouzis

14.30 Time Matters! Searching for Authentic Experience in Video Games in Relation to their Temporal Structure (abstract)

Giannis Perperidis

15.00 Break

15.10  Video Games Enable Novel Ways to Perceive (abstract)

James Gulledge

15.40 Knowledge Structures our Perception of Virtual Worlds (abstract)

Ben van Buren and Colleen Macklin

16.10 Closing discussion 

17.00 End of workshop

20.00 Dinner and Closing Party