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