Technoculture, Art and Games (TAG) is an interdisciplinary centre for research/ creation in game studies and design, digital culture and interactive art

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Graduate Recruitment Award in Game Studies at Concordia University

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Call for Applications
Recruitment Award for Doctoral Candidates in Digital Game Studies at Concordia University
The Centre for Technoculture, Art and Games (TAG) invites applications for the TAG-IMMERSe Research Bursary, in support of a Doctorate in Digital Game Studies at Concordia University in Montréal. The bursary is available for a maximum of $15,000 CDN/year for up to three years. For promising candidates, it may be combined with other fellowships and entrance awards, including the TAG Merit award …

Tenure-Track Position in Digital Media, Learning and Games at Concordia

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Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, invites applications for a tenure-track strategic hire position in the area of Digital Media, Learning and Games. Depending on the selected candidate’s profile, the appointment will be made either in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences or in the Faculty of Fine Arts. The goal of the strategic hire program is to augment existing research capacity at Concordia through the development of high profile interdisciplinary research clusters. The successful candidate …

Brothers and the Socio-Materiality of Controllers

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Blame it on the Halloween Steam sale or blame it on too much time doing administration. I had to play some games (we are talking Dark Souls here people… that’s how intense my admin life has become).
Anyway I picked up Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons after Darren Wershler raved about it and reminded myself how much I love thinking about gameplay experiences. I am the first to admit I need to spend more time …

Propinquity is an Official Selection for Indiecade 2013

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This is a nice cap for what has been a wonderful run with Propinquity thus far.  The game has been shown and played in Paris, Montreal, San Francisco, and Boston and now its on its way to Brussels and then Indiecade in LA where we have earned a place as an official selection for the Indiecade Night Games. This is a big deal for us and we are well chuffed.
Propinquity is a two player …

More on the Hothouse Effect

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  Darren Wershler just put up this excellent post on the new Amplab blog. I think I saw the tweet just at the right time because I caught myself pondering the organization of TAG, possible futures and other stuff that creeps into my head when I can’t seem to write.  Darren’s bit is on Barton Kunstler’s concept of  the creative “Hothouse” as an inspiration for thinking about the orchestration of the CURC digital humanities lab …

Tchotchke theory and 3D Printing

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So our new Replicator 2 3D printer has arrived!  Why did we get it and what does it have to do with TAG?
To be perfectly honest, we did not have anything specific in mind when we ordered the Makerbot.  I have no doubt that it will be useful for the maker-tinkerer-designers at TAG, and I am intrigued by the idea of using the printer to make more robust prototypes for game projects or even abstract …