The Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, in cooperation with the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philology, and the Serbian Games Association (SGA), are organising the Second International Conference dedicated to the study of video games in Serbia, /Video Games as a Challenge to Academia: 50 Years of the Gaming Industry./
Five decades after Magnavox Odyssey, the first home gaming console, came to market, and five decades after the founding of Atari, the second international Video Game Studies conference (SVI), aims to examine various aspects and links between the gaming industry, video-game scholarship and criticism. The aim of such a conceptualisation is to open a dialogue between the gaming industry and the academia, and foster an understanding of their sometimes diverging goals and interests. Such a dialogue revolves around several key questions:
- What can scholarship, without giving up on critical thinking, offer the industry, and vice versa?
- ·Can the industry survive its crises alone, and should scholarship lend a hand?
- Can academia remain separate from the industry?
- Finally, is the market changing gaming, or is gaming conquering the marketplace?
The official language of the conference is English. Abstracts of up to 300 words, with up to 5 keywords before October 10th, 2022 should be sent to: conference.svi@gmail.com.
The conference will be held in Novi Sad, Serbia, December 10th-11th, 2022
Please visit website for detailed information: https://sviconference.org