“When Simulation gets Critical (and Creative)” por David Ciccoricco (Universidade de Otago, Nova Zelândia).
This talk by visiting Professor David Ciccoricco (University of Otago, New Zealand) first considers some of the latest thinking and theorizing around simulation as a critical, epistemological, and aesthetic mode. It will then illustrate the nature of what Ciccoricco describes as simulation’s “temporal paradox,” with reference to his artistic collaboration (with Mez Breeze and Jacob Cone): BabyHex. The BabyHex system is a developmental language learning simulator embodied in a virtual toddler – or rather, it’s a story masquerading as all that.
David Ciccoricco is Professor of English and Linguistics at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. His research draws on cognitive science and philosophy of mind to establish how fictional minds help explain actual ones. His teaching and research on digital fiction and literary games offers hope for the future of the literary imagination in a digital culture. He is the author of Reading Network Fiction (2007), a book on pre-Web and Web-based digital fiction, and Refiguring Minds in Narrative Media (2015), which is focused on cognitive approaches to narrative and literary theory in print novels, digital narratives, and story-driven videogames.
Organização: Doutoramento em Materialidades da Literatura, MATLIT LAB: Laboratório de Humanidades, Mestrado em Escrita Criativa, Centro de Literatura Portuguesa e Secção de Estudos Anglo-Americanos.