6 th International Conference on the Philosophy of Computer Games
AUTHORS
ARSGAMES is a Cultural Association composed of professionals, artists,
researches, students that work in the video game framework along the followingissues:
1.2.3.4.5.
GAME STUDIES , video games theory research. GAME ART , art and video games relationship. INNOVATION , Technological and industrial innovation. CURATING , Exibitions and social events. FORMATION , formal and informal education and divulgation about videogames.
More information in: www.arsgames.net .
Juan Francisco Belmonte holds an M.A in Comparative Literature and is a Ph.
D candidate and Associate Researcher in the Department of English Studies at theUniversity of Murcia, Spain.
His dissertation explores the ways in which gender and sexuality are represented invideo games through the depiction of virtual urban space. From 2009 (August) to2010 (December) he was a Fulbright Scholar at Indiana University, Bloomington,where he took courses at the Departments of Communication and Culture, GenderStudies, and Telecommunications.
Eurídice Cabañes is graduated in Philosophy (University of Valencia 2007) and
writes her doctoral Thesis about Computational Creativity in the PHD of Lógic andPhilosophy of Science, for this reason, in 2010 she do an internship at ImperialCollege of London in the Computational Creativity Group.
Currently, she is founding member of ARSGAMES, is part the coordination team ofthe Observatorio para la Cibersociedad and belongs to the editorial board ofTEXTOS.
She has organized and participated as a speaker in various conferences andseminars related with philosophy, synaesthesia, art, videogames, etc.
More information in: www.euridicecabanes.es.tl .
Flavio Escribano is an independent researcher in the field of Games Studies and
Game Art. He founded and is the president of ARSGAMES ( www.arsgames.net ),acollective research group whose focus is again on Games Studies and Game Artresearch.
He currently is professor and invited speaker in different University Masters'degrees, Seminars and Workshops (European University of Madrid, UniversitatOberta de Catalunya, Universidad Complutense de Madrid...). His researchinterests span videogames, education and training, social inclusion, art and genderstudies. He collaborates with numerous institutions and research labs: EuropeanCommision, AMAZE and DIGAREC (Berlin), Instituto Cervantes (Spain), MediaLab-Prado (Madrid), Intermediae-Matadero (Madrid), Zemos98 (Seville). Actually he isalso colaborating at videogame area of Spanish Ministery of Education's web portal Leer.es .
Finally Flavio is a Web2.0 communicator. He has an open reposiory of multimediadocuments here: http://arsgames.blip.tv .