Program Berlin 2024

Thursday May 9

21.00 Dinner/Meet and greet. Spagos Restaurant, Park Inn Alexanderplatz 7, 10178 Berlin Germany

Friday May 10

Venue: Regenbogenfabrik, Lausitzer str 21a, Kreuzberg.  We will use the cafe facing the street until around 12.00 on Friday, and then use a room innermost in the backyard for the rest of the day. We have the cafe to ourselves the entire Saturday. 

Skype link to join the webinar.  Passcode: KcPJR9tw    Meeting ID: 622 1422 6328

09.30 Coffee

09.45 Introduction

Chair: Anita Leirfall

10.00 The Visual Information Available in Virtual Reality (abstract)

Zuzanna Rucińska and Pawel Grabarczyk 

10.40 In Defense of Virtual Veridicalism (abstract)

Yen-Tung Lee

11.20  Break 

11.30 Perceptual Experience in Synthetic Realities (abstract)

John R. Sageng

12.10 Lunch

13.00 Alief & Belief in Virtual Worlds (abstract) 

Federico Alvarez Igarzábal

13.40   Veridical Perception in Games and Virtual Worlds (abstract)

Tom Poljanšek

14.20 Break  

14.30 Perspectives and Spatial Frames of References: Semiotic Spaces in Video Games (video presentation) (abstract)

Martin Thiering and Stephan Günzel

15.10 Break

15.20  What Is My Relationship with My Avatar? (video presentation) (abstract)

Cordelia Berz

16.00  Break

16.10 Video Games as Tourism (abstract)

Anh-Thu Nguyen

16.50  End of first day.

19.00 Common Gathering and Dinner.  Proposal: Restaurant Panther, Waldemarstraße 119

Saturday May 11

Chair: Anita Leirfall

9.30 On Perceptions of the Other in Violent and Non-Violent Single-player Video Games (abstract)

Maciej Jemioł

10.10  Perceiving Cheating: Exploring Rule Violations in Games (abstract)

Marco Mazzocca

10.50 Break

11.00 Metaphysical Phenomenology and Mediation of Death as Space-time Paradoxy in Videogames (abstract)

Sebastian R. Richter

11.40 Perception in Game Space and Film Space (abstract)

Rune Klevjer 

12.20 Break.

12.30  Spatial Adaptation of a Referencing Writing Style in Virtual Worlds (abstract)

Christina Zimmermann 

13.10  Lunch

14.00 The Liveness of In-game Concerts: Notes on the Player/Audience Sonic Perception in Minecraft (abstract)

Karina Moritzen

14.40 Experiential Re-Living in VR (abstract)

Cody Turner

15.20 Break

15.30  Game States as Intent Vessels (video presentation) (abstract)

Malay Dhamelia

16.10  Closing Discussion and Planning Meeting

19.00 Dinner and Closing Party. 

Proposal for restaurant: Umami at Schlesische Str. 5. For later we could either go to Klunkerkranich if it is sunny or Birgit & Bier if not.