Open Call – Retune Festival, Berlin – deadline 28 August 2016

http://retune.stfi.re/festival/2016/opencall About the Festival The Retune Festival 2016 will transform a school building from the past into a playground of the futures. From October 6-8, the house and its surrounding neighbourhood in Berlin-Kreuzberg opens up to international artists, researchers, designers and creative coders. Creating a space for dialogues around the aesthetic-technological practices that are changing today’s society and our future … Read More

Call for papers – Well Played Journal Special Issue: European Videogames of the 1980s – deadline 1 November 2016

Edited by Clara Fernandez-Vara and Bennett Foddy. The historical discourse of videogames has been dominated by the North American narrative, which sidelines the history of other parts of the world which were not affected by the Atari Crash. The 1980s were a time when the European entertainment software industry thrived and bloomed, particularly on home computers, and demonstrated impressive levels … Read More