Marleena Huuhka's doctoral thesis Exploring Counterplay in Video Games through Artaudian Performance Theory examines performance and performance space in video games through Antonin Artauds concept of theatre. The goal is to recognize and produce new ways of shaping and taking control of virtual and physical space during the game event.
Goal
The results from Huuhka's thesis will help to conceive emerging strategies of counterplay in changing game cultures. In a broader sense, it reflects changes in the practices of mediated digital culture environments as well as changes in the interaction between humans and technology it assesses the problems of the fluid relationships between culture, knowledge and society. This study will adjust and affect how multimodality and cultural performance will be perceived and produced in the future.
Funding source
Finnish Cultural Foundation
Contact persons
Marleena Huuhka
Doctoral researcher
marleena.huuhka [at] uta.fi
+358 40 750 6603