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