BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:4458-f8c5e8eafd40dfb575e043bc4fc9f61f@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260418T054548Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220324T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220324T133000 SUMMARY:(Co)Figurations of Future: Ecocritical Approaches to Virtual Worlds DESCRIPTION:\nVirtual roundtable hosted by the Liberal Arts Collective a t Penn State with Alenda Y. Chang\, Jonathan Correa\, Kathryn Hamilton\, and Deniz Tortum\n\nVirtual environments proliferate within the flatnes s of our screens\, a flatness spatially structured by layers of hardware and code. From hypertext and social networks to the 3D worlds of video games and virtual reality\, we wander and explore realities paralleling& mdash\;and mirroring&mdash\;our own. Often this engagement occurs throug h frameworks of interaction and play. Digitally-rendered worlds\, whethe r constructed of text\, images\, video\, or other interfaces\, have the potential to reorient the relationship we have to our own planet in cris is. \; How do we relate virtual environments to non-virtual ones\, p articularly in our time of ecological devastation and climate change?&nb sp\;\n\nPanelists will discuss how digital media forms are being used in response to ongoing ecological crises and the role of the human in virt ual worlds. Through an interdisciplinary approach to video games\, softw are\, and contemporary art\, we hope to (re)imagine digitized sociality as going beyond computers and humans to the environment more broadly.&nb sp\; What are the possible future(s) envisioned by and through the exper ience of virtual worlds?\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/ event/cff_ecocritical-approaches/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Virtual roundta ble hosted by the Liberal Arts Collective at Penn State with Alenda Y. C hang, Jonathan Correa, Kathryn Hamilton, and Deniz Tortum

Virtual environments proliferate within the flatness of our screens, a flatness spatially structured by layers of hardware and code. From hypertext and social networks to the 3D worlds of video games and virtual reality, we wander and explore realities paralleling—and mirroring—our o wn. Often this engagement occurs through frameworks of interaction and p lay. Digitally-rendered worlds, whether constructed of text, images, vid eo, or other interfaces, have the potential to reorient the relationship we have to our own planet in crisis.  How do we relate virtual env ironments to non-virtual ones, particularly in our time of ecological de vastation and climate change? 

Panelists will discuss how dig ital media forms are being used in response to ongoing ecological crises and the role of the human in virtual worlds. Through an interdisciplina ry approach to video games, software, and contemporary art, we hope to ( re)imagine digitized sociality as going beyond computers and humans to t he environment more broadly.  What are the possible future(s) envis ioned by and through the experience of virtual worlds?

For more de tails: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/cff_ecocritical-approaches/

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