Christian Huberts

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Christian Huberts (right) at the Digital Salon of the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society on July 31, 2013 in Berlin.

Christian Huberts (* 1982 in Hildesheim ) is a German author and cultural scientist .

Life

Christian Huberts studied cultural studies and aesthetic practice at the University of Hildesheim from 2003 to 2008 . From 2009 he works as a freelance writer, lecturer and expert on computer games . He has been working at the GA Hochschule in Berlin since October 2014 , where he gives seminars on the dramaturgy of computer games and game studies, among other things . In addition, he regularly gives lectures on cultural studies at festivals , conferences and workshops and speaks on panel discussions for the Federal Agency for Civic Education , the Berlin International Literature Festival and the Heinrich Böll Foundation .

As an expert on the aesthetics and culture of computer games, he appears frequently on television and radio. For example, in the culture time on 3sat , the issues of the day in the ARD and reload on EinsPlus and at Studio 9 in Germany Kultur . In addition, he regularly comments on the political discourse on computer games in Germany, such as the so-called killer game debate, on which he is critical of politics digital . Martin Spieß wrote about him in the cover culture magazine : "Anyone who not only wants to play computer games today, but also wants to understand them, cannot ignore Huberts."

In August 2010 Blumenkamp Verlag published his monograph room temperature , a media and cultural studies analysis of computer games based on the theories of the Canadian literary scholar Marshall McLuhans . Sven Grampp wrote about it in the Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft : "Based on exemplary analyzes of some computer games, Huberts comes up with a very convincing, because variable, model for describing the participatory effect of media." In March 2012, together with Daniel Appel, Tim Raupach and Sebastian Standke, he gave the compilation Welt | Kriegs | Shooter published by Werner Hülsbusch. In August 2014, in cooperation with Sebastian Standke, the game studies anthology Between | Worlds followed , which gathers scientific and essayistic texts on Gernot Boehme's atmosphere theory in computer games. In addition, Hubert is author and editor for WASD - Bookazine for Games Culture and regularly publishes texts in online culture magazines and journals. Articles of his have appeared in the Süddeutsche Zeitung , GamesMarkt , M! Games , at spielbar.de and on Video Game Tourism .

Huberts lives and works in Berlin .

Publications (selection)

Own works

  • Room temperature. Marshall McLuhan's categories of "hot" and "cold" in computer games . Blumenkamp Verlag, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-98106-857-3 .

As editor

  • Together with Sebastian Standke: Zwischen | Welten: Atmospheres in computer games . Werner Hülsbusch Verlag, Glückstadt 2014, ISBN 978-3-86488-063-6 .
  • Together with Daniel Appel, Tim Raupach, Sebastian Standke: Welt | Kriegs | Shooter: Computer games as realistic memory media? . Werner Hülsbusch Verlag, Boizenburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86488-010-0 .

Articles and essays

  • Pixel polymorphism. The remedialization of the procedural atmosphere into static paintings . In: Natascha Adamowsky (Ed.): Digitale Moderne. Matthias Zimmermann's model worlds . Hirmer Verlag, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-7774-2388-3 , pp. 150-163
  • 116 . In: Christiane Frohmann (Ed.): Writing a thousand deaths . E-book, Frohmann Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-944195-55-1 (ePub).
  • Reading computer games . In: Thomas Böhm (Ed.): New Level: Computer games and literature . Metrolit Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-8493-0360-0 .
  • Guybrush Threepwood . In: Andrea Baron, Kai Splittgerber (ed.): Heroes of Childhood: From comics, film and television . Book guild Gutenberg, Frankfurt a. M. 2013, ISBN 978-3-86406-031-1 .
  • One hand for one eye! On the need for physical research aesthetics for computer game analysis . In: Rudolf Inderst, Peter Just: Build ʼem Up - Shoot ʼem Down: Physicality in digital games . Werner Hülsbusch Verlag, Glückstadt 2013, ISBN 978-3-86488-027-8 .
  • Databases as leeway: "This is a path winding through a dimly lit forest" . In: Stefan Böhme, Rolf F. Nohr, Serjoscha Wiemer (eds.): Sorting, collecting, searching, playing: The database as a medial practice . Lit Verlag, Münster 2012, ISBN 978-3-643-11728-1 .
  • A criticism of flow as a game design paradigm. Or: Why I prefer to swim against the flow . In: Anne-Kristin Langner, Mathias Mertens (eds.): Flow from play: Optimal experience through computer games . Blumenkamp Verlag, Salzhemmendorf 2012, ISBN 978-3-942958-07-3 .
  • Between 1 and 0: The romantic conflict between real and virtual worlds . In: Rudolf Inderst, Peter Just (Ed.): Contact - Conflict - Combat: On the tradition of conflict in digital games . Werner Hülsbusch Verlag, Boizenburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-940-31789-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Digital Salon: Computer Games . Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, July 31, 2013
  2. ↑ Gaming the Great War! Development of a game prototype for the history of the First World War . bpb.de
  3. ↑ Christian Huberts . literaturfestival.com
  4. ↑ Gamification - theater in the new game world . YouTube channel of the Heinrich Böll Foundation
  5. ↑ Dream factory computer game . In: Kulturzeit extra , broadcast on September 18, 2014.
  6. ↑ Computer games prize awarded at the “International Games Week” in Berlin . In: Tagesthemen , broadcast on April 21, 2015.
  7. ↑ Reload - Episode 1 - Diablo 3 / The Sound of Games / Innovative game design . EinsPlus YouTube channel, broadcast on May 8, 2012.
  8. ↑ Who will create the PC games of the future? . Studio 9, broadcast on December 18, 2014
  9. ↑ Topic: Are killer games worthy of a prize? . politik-digital.de, May 7, 2012.
  10. ↑ Martin Spieß : Kill, Switch, Engage . In: Titel-Kulturmagazin , May 4, 2012, accessed on March 22, 2018.
  11. ↑ Room temperature ( memento of the original from August 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Blumenkamp Publishing House.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.katrin-blumenkamp.de
  12. ↑ Sven Grampp: One Hundred Years of Mcluhan (PDF; 573 kB). In: Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft , No. 1/2011, pp. 183–187. Retrieved September 17, 2015.
  13. ↑ Achim Fehrenbach: War games are memory media . In: Zeit Online , March 20, 2012, accessed September 17, 2012.
  14. ↑ team . wasd-magazin.de.
  15. ^ Christian Huberts: Poverty in Computer Games: Medium of Power Capitalists . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , June 24, 2014.
  16. ↑ Christian Huberts: Myths Kulturgut: Three theses on the future of digital games as culture . In: GamesMarkt , December 18, 2013.
  17. ^ Christian Huberts: Games from the garage . In: M! Games , No. 9/2009, pp. 80-84.
  18. ^ Christian Huberts: Illusions of freedom: Control and surveillance in computer games . spielbar.de.
  19. ↑ Christian Huberts: SPIEGEL makes you stupid. Why even positive computer game articles are no better than their reputation . videogametourism.at.
personal data
SURNAME Huberts, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author
DATE OF BIRTH 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Hildesheim