Academic Activities
Mathias Fuchs started the first Masters Programme in "Creative Games" at the School of Art & Design at the University of Salford in Greater Manchester.
Creative Games is a discipline on the borderline of Games, Art, Critical Discourse. Main topics are:
- History and Philosophy of Computer Games
- Aesthetics of Computer Games
- Games as Museums and Exhibitions
- Computer Games as Musical Instruments and Sound Tools
- Interactive Text Spaces
- Embedded Games (Cross-media and mixed media)
- City-Scapes in Ludic Contexts
Currently Mathias Fuchs leads a European programme development for a European Masters in Ludic Interfaces. "Ludic Interfaces" is the title of a European collaboration in creating a network of Academic Institutions and of world leading Media Centres to investigate, design and test publicly shared digital content. The programme development is a joint project by the University of Potsdam, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Polytechnic University of Valencia), Universität für künstlerische und industrielle Gestaltung in Linz, and by the University of Salford.
In 2010 Mathias Fuchs received his Doctor title for a PhD thesis on the meaning of sounds ("Sinn und Sound") by Humboldt University of Berlin. In 2011/12 Mathias Fuchs held a Visiting Professorship for "Visual Thinking" at the University of Potsdam. Since 2012 Mathias Fuchs is Professor at the Centre for Digital Cultures at Lüneburg University.
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