{"669621":{"#nid":"669621","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Fall 2023 DM Talks Guest Alumni Speaker: Hartmut Koenitz - Understanding Interactive Digital Narratives","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWe are privileged to welcome\u0026nbsp;Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca data-entity-type=\u0022MINI_PROFILE\u0022 href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ACoAAADcVp0BhBtEajT23AuOrbXcX_T9LnNbK7g\u0022\u003EHartmut Koenitz\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to our DM Talks series, a distinguished figure in the domain of interactive digital narratives.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EDate:\u0026nbsp;Monday, Sept 18th\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003ETime:\u0026nbsp;11 am\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EVenue:\u0026nbsp;TSRB 118 \u0026amp; Teams\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the Lecture:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHartmut Koenitz is Professor (full) in Media Technology at S\u00f6dert\u00f6rn University in Sweden, a visiting researcher at the University of Amsterdam, and a visiting research fellow at Trinity College Dublin. His latest book \u201cUnderstanding Interactive Digital Narratives\u201d was published by Routledge in April 2023.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHis research is concerned with the theory, practice, education and societal impact of interactive narratives and games. He has published over 70 scholarly publications including the co-edited volume Interactive Digital Narrative \u2013 history, theory and practice (Routledge 2015).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKoenitz is the chair of the EU COST Action 18230 INDCOR (Interactive Narrative Design for Complexity Representations \u2013\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/indcor.eu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_self\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/indcor.eu\u003C\/a\u003E), a project connecting more then 200 scholars from 40 countries and one of the editors of the upcoming Routledge Encyclopedia of Interactive Digital Narrative.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe is also the president of ARDIN, the Association for Research in Digital Interactive Narratives (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ardin.online\/\u0022 target=\u0022_self\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/ardin.online\u003C\/a\u003E) which organizes the International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS) and is partnered with the ZIP Scene conference. Koenitz is also the founding Editor-In-Chief of the upcoming Journal of Interactive Narrative Research, a joint venture between Carnegie Mellon University Press and ARDIN, which will be the first academic journal specific to the topic.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKoenitz is a member of several academic and professional societies, including DIGRA (Digital Games Research Association), ACM, European Council member of HEVGA (Higher Education Video Game Alliance), RealTime Society\u2019s Interactive Storytelling Group, ELO (Electronic Literature Organization), International Society for the Study of Narrative and the European Narratology Network.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKoenitz holds a PhD from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Digital Media on the theory and practice of Interactive Digital Narrative.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKoenitz is the creator of the ASAPS authoring tool, which has been used to create more than 150 works.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPreviously, Koenitz was the CTO of the Berlin-based startup Designnet, worked as a tech journalist writing more than 150 articles, consulted for clients like Stanford in Berlin and co-founded a tech company.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe is also a visual artist, and his works have been shown in Atlanta, Paris, Istanbul, Seoul, Copenhagen and Porto. 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