Megadungeon
open access | peer reviewed-
edited by
- Paolo Berti - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email
- Stefania De Vincentis - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email
- Gabriele de Seta - Universitetet i Bergen, Norge - email
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 Exhibition design • Geology of media • Topology • Digital infrastructures • Generative Art • Digital culture • Mapping • Music • Artificial Intelligence (AI) • Open worlds • The Garden of Earthly Delights • Volumetry • Critical geography • 0 • Dungeons • Digital folklore • Digital media • Bestiaries • User Generated Content (UGC) • Digital art • Web 3 • Aesthetics • Co-creativity • Depth • Imaginary • Underground • In-game worldbuilding • Ethnomusicology • Contemporary art • Metaphors • Agency • Megadungeon • Monster • Postdigital aura • Urban studies • Class • Blockchain • Infrastructure • New media art • Hieronymus Bosch • Play • Tabletop role-playing games • Dungeon • Spatial practice • Machine learning • Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO)
Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/mag/2724-3923/2023/02 | Published Dec. 19, 2023 | Language en
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