The Semiotics of Video Games
The Semiotics of Video Games is an art miscellany that investigates the production of meaning in videogames. It does so through seven themes inspired by the essays of the Computer Games between Text and Practice online publication, edited in 2009 by Dario Compagno and Patrick J. Coppock from the Associazione Italiana di Studi Semiotici. The themes are conveyed using artworks that have been selected internationally and across various media: photography, video and video games.
By exposing a wide range of semiotic issues and artistic assertions, the miscellany wants to uncover the ambiguous interdependence that exist between our everyday cultural reality and the rhetoric manifesting itself in video games. We assist at what seems an aggregation of the two realms, and the viewer of the online exhibition will have to make his own mind on what still characterize both. Do video games get closer to our perception of reality, or is our perception of reality getting closer to video games?
January 2011, Christophe Bruchansky and Mathias Jansson
- Theme 1: Avatars and Empathy in video games
- Theme 2: Magic Circle in video games
- Theme 3: Chronology in video games
- Theme 4: Narratology vs. Ludology in video games
- Theme 5: Immersion in video games
- Theme 6: Intelligibility in video games
- Theme 7: Rules in video games
- Annex 1: What is a game world? Doors, keys and… good legs
- Annex 2: Questions Blocks – How to make two worlds collide?
Online exhibition curated by Christophe Bruchansky and Mathias Jansson, from the essays Computer Games between Text and Practice, edited by Dario Compagno and Patrick J. Coppock with whom we collaborated on this project.
- Christophe Bruchansky (Belgium) is curator of this website.
- Dario Compagno (Italy) is Ph.D. in Semiotics at the University of Siena.
- Patrick J. Coppock (Italy) is adjunct professor in philosophy and theory of languages at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, and founder member of the international gamephilosophy.org network.
- Mathias Jansson (Sweden) is art critic, cultural journalist and web editor.
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