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with Carl Therrien, Jonathan Lessard, and Dany Guay-B\u00e9langer<\/em><\/p>\n

English<\/p>\n

Videogames are a fairly young medium. Emerging as a commercial good in the early 1960s, they have slowly made their way into the mainstream. What was once seen as toys for young boys has become so widespread that many of us have them in our living rooms or basements, and even close to us at all times in our very pockets. There has been interest in the history of the medium for quite some time, as can be seen with the many publications by fans and journalists and the recent resurgence of retrogaming. But academia lagged behind in investigating videogame history and it is only around 2010, about a decade after the emergence of game studies as a discipline, that this area of research truly gained momentum. Since then, scholars from across disciplinary boundaries have endeavoured to analyse the complex and fascinating history of a medium that is at once art form, culture, and technology. Still, oral history remains underutilised in the study of videogaming even though many scholars have argued for its potential. This event will give a brief overview of the history of videogames and of historical research on this topic. It will then bring in conversation two approaches to oral history as it relates to videogames. The first, presented by Carl Therrien and Jonathan Lessard, is to interview game developers, and in this case early practitioners of what would become known as the independent game development scene. The second, presented by Dany Guay-B\u00e9langer, is to interview players to preserve their memories and experiences of playing and appropriating games.<\/p>\n

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Jonathan Lessard<\/strong>\u00a0is a game designer, professor, and researcher at Concordia University. For the past ten years as leader of the\u00a0LabLabLab<\/a>, he has been exploring the playful affordances of various technologies and concepts such as natural language processing and possible worlds theory. His main research interests include emergent narratives, complex simulations, and game design history.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Carl Therrien<\/strong>\u00a0is Full Professor in games and film studies at the Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al. In\u00a0The Media Snatcher\u00a0(Platform studies, MIT Press, 2019), he proposed\u00a0 a critical view of videogame historiography through a comparative study of the PC Engine platform, confronting American and Japanese perspectives of this technology. He has written numerous papers on immersion and on the history of popular genres (such as adventure games and first-person shooters). His research projects seek to integrate more video games into the canon, hoping to assist archivists and historians in their efforts to engage with the diversity and complexity of this culture.<\/em><\/p>\n

Dany Guay-B\u00e9langer<\/strong>\u00a0is a FRQ-funded PhD candidate in Film Studies at the Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al. By combining his training as a public historian and a game scholar, his research aims to develop a methodology favouring a holistic approach for the preservation and study of videogames as cultural heritage artefacts that allows players and researchers, present and future, to access videogames from every era of this medium\u2019s history. Dany is currently the Francophone Representative of the Canadian Game Studies Association and scholar in residence at the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS) of Concordia University.<\/em><\/p>\n

Dany Guay-B\u00e9langer est candidat au doctorat en \u00e9tudes cin\u00e9matographiques \u00e0 l’Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al et est financ\u00e9 par le Fonds de recherche du Qu\u00e9bec. Combinant sa formation d’historien public et de chercheur en \u00e9tude du\u00a0jeu, sa recherche vise \u00e0 d\u00e9velopper une m\u00e9thodologie favorisant une approche holistique pour la pr\u00e9servation et l’\u00e9tude des jeux vid\u00e9o en tant qu’art\u00e9facts d\u2019h\u00e9ritage\u00a0culturel. Cette m\u00e9thodologie a pour but de\u00a0permettre\u00a0aux joueu\u00b7euse\u00b7s et aux chercheur\u00b7euse\u00b7s, pr\u00e9sent\u00b7e\u00b7s et futur\u00b7e\u00b7s, d’acc\u00e9der aux jeux vid\u00e9o de toutes les \u00e9poques de l’histoire de ce m\u00e9dium. Dany est actuellement le repr\u00e9sentant francophone de l’Association canadienne des \u00e9tudes des jeux et chercheur en r\u00e9sidence au Centre d’histoire orale et de r\u00e9cits num\u00e9riques (CHORN) de l’Universit\u00e9 Concordia.<\/em><\/p>\n

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REGISTRATION<\/strong><\/p>\n

Please note that all of our events are free and open to all, but you need to register! To register, contact us at:\u00a0cohds.chorn@concordia.ca<\/a><\/p>\n

In-person in LB-1019 (Sunroom), COHDS<\/p>\n

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