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