The document discusses the exploration of landscape, narrative, and time through the lens of computer games, touching on the role of serious games in training and communication. It highlights various artistic approaches and experiences related to games, including the blending of digital heritage with story and artistic representation, and questions the traditional archaeological methods of visual exploration. The agenda suggests redefining landscape engagement by prioritizing artistic content over strict historical authenticity.

1. I Remember When… Exploring landscape, narrative and time using computer games Keith Challis, IBM Vista, University of Birmingham

2. I Remember When… serious games? an approach agenda

3. serious games?

4. serious games? Bob Stone - Eugene Che’ng games as mediums of training and communication scientific visualisation simulation

5. an alternative to serious games? the chineseroom: Dan Pinchbeck games as research artifacts subversion of form exploration of narrative structure / made meanings

6. Eddo Stern fusion of games, installation art and performance challenges to perception and engagement breaking the medium an alternative to serious games?

7. an alternative to serious games? Igloo (Ruth Gibson & Bruno Martelli ) an investigation into the experience of place, figure and landscape real and invented panoramas depict the beauty and strangeness of the natural world Vermilion Lake

8. an alternative to serious games? Robert Overweg games as the subject of artistic representation

9. an approach

10. an approach small areas (max 2 x 2km) real terrain unconstrained movement, no goals programmed low-key events unresolved objectives

11. an approach Imagining the Stones an archaeology of landscape "the real work [in the study of landscape] is accomplished by the men and women with muddy boots..." (WG Hoskins) like Hoskins we "explore England on foot"

12. an approach

13. an approach Capture the Castle uniting quantitative/qualitative a virtual phenomenological approach? quantitative data driven visualisation qualitative, sensory exploration of data/meaning

14. an approach

15. an approach Now and England an exploration of text free exploration of text and landscape relationship between scenery and ideation exploration of new meanings in text

16. an approach

17. an approach PROs enthusiastic engagement intuitive understanding Awe “ that’s just like it” inquisitive exploration CONS confusion over aims sense of disorientation what am I meant to do? recognition of weaknesses in world fabric

18. agenda

19. Questions can use of games facilitate a novel approach to visual exploration of landscape? what would it mean to throw away the rules of archaeological approaches to visualisation? can we create a new landscape of engagement? agenda

20. agenda stonehenge korsokovia esther laxton gidding now real then imagined

21. agenda Aims fusion of digital heritage, story and artistic representation abandon rules of time and linearity equality of the teller and the audience

22. agenda

23. agenda The Path http://tale-of-tales.com/ThePath/

24. agenda freedom from strict adherence to historical authenticity primacy of artistic and dramatic content active exploration of landscape theory an element of installation in presentation Norwich Castle Museum

25. (loose) ends equating games with visualisation is missing the point historical fidelity is less important than drama and narrative games are the theatre of the past www.vista.bham.ac.uk/games secondsiteresearch.blogspot.com