Ian Bogost
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Ian Bogost | |
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 Bogost with an Atari VCS joystick | |
| Occupation(s) | Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, co-founder of Persuasive Games |
| Website | www.bogost.com |
Ian Bogost is an American academic and
He is the author of Alien Phenomenology or What It's Like to be a Thing and Unit Operations: An Approach to Videogame Criticism and Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogames and the co-author of
Education
Bogost received his bachelor's in Philosophy and Comparative Literature from the University of Southern California in 1998. He then went on to get his masters in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2001, and received his doctorate in Comparative Literature from UCLA in 2004.[3]
Professional career
In 2008, Bogost became an associate professor in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology. In 2010, he was appointed Director of the Graduate Program in Digital Media, a position he held until 2012. In 2011, Bogost became a professor of Digital Media and an adjunct professor of Interactive Computing. In 2012, he was named the Ivan Allen College Distinguished Chair in Media Studies and a professor of Interactive Computing, both positions he still holds. With Christopher Schaberg, he is co-editor of the series Object Lessons from Bloomsbury Publishing.
His book Alien Phenomenology or What It's Like to be a Thing (University of Minnesota Press, 2012) critiques aspects of
In 2021, Bogost quit his job at the Georgia Institute of Technology partly because of the university's lack of COVID-19 protection requirements. He took a joint professorship at Washington University where he serves as director and professor of the Film and Media Studies program in Arts & Sciences[5] and the McKelvey School of Engineering.
Bogost was a co-founder of the game studio Persuasive Games, for which he is currently the chief designer.
Honors and awards
- Winner, Vanguard & Virtuoso Awards, Indiecade Festival 2010 (for A Slow Year).[6]
- Finalist, Indiecade Festival 2010 (for A Slow Year).[6]
Games
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| Game | Release | Notes |
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| Simony | 2012 | Released as both an iOS game and an installation at the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville[7] |
| A Slow Year: Game Poems | 2010 | |
| Cow Clicker[8] | 2010 | |
| Guru Meditation | 2009 | Also released for Atari VCS as a limited edition[9] |
| Fatworld | 2007 | |
| Cruel 2 B Kind[10] | 2006 | Concept and Design w/ Jane McGonigal[11] |
| Jetset: A Game for Airports[12] | 2006 | |
| Sweaty Palms | 2004 | |
| Horde of Directors | 2004 | Concept and Design w/ Michael Keesey[13] |
| The Howard Dean for Iowa Game[14] | 2003 | Concept and Design w/ Gonzalo Frasca[15] |
Bibliography
- Play Anything: The Pleasure of Limits, the Uses of Boredom, and the Secret of Games. Basic Books. 2016. ISBN 9780465051724.
- The State of Play: Creators and Critics on Video Game Culture. Seven Stories Press. 2015. ISBN 978-1609806392. (anthology, edited by Daniel Goldberg and Linus Larsson) (Bogost contributed the article "The Squalid Grace of Flappy Bird")[16]
- How to Talk about Videogames. University Of Minnesota Press. 2015. ISBN 978-0816699117.
- Alien Phenomenology, or What It's Like to Be a Thing. University Of Minnesota Press. 2012. ISBN 978-0816678976.
- How to Do Things with Videogames. University Of Minnesota Press. 2011. ISBN 978-0816676460.
- A Slow Year: Game Poems. Open Texture. 2010. ISBN 978-1933900162.
- Newsgames: Journalism at Play. MIT Press. 2010. ISBN 978-0262014878.
- ISBN 978-0262012577. 2nd edition (with Nick Montfort)
- Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogames. MIT Press. 2007. ISBN 978-0262026147.
- Unit Operations: An Approach to Videogame Criticism. MIT Press. 2006. ISBN 026202599X.
References
- ^ "IndieCade Award Winners". IndieCade. March 2013. Retrieved 2013-03-05.
- ^ All articles by Ian Bogost on The Atlantic
- ^ "Home". Bogost.com. Retrieved 2022-12-28.
- ISBN 9780814212950.
- ^ Stirgus, Eric (August 2, 2021). "Georgia colleges not requiring masks on campus as cities issue mandates". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Retrieved 1 August 2022.
- ^ a b McElroy, Griffin (3 September 2010). "IndieCade 2010 finalists announced, everyone's nominated for everything". Engadget.
- ^ Bogost, Ian. "Simony".
- ^ Tanz, Jason. "The Curse of Cow Clicker: How a Cheeky Satire Became a Videogame Hit". Wired. Vol. 20, no. 1. Conde Nast. Retrieved 9 September 2013.
- ^ Bogost, Ian. "Guru Meditation".
- ^ "cruelgame.com". Cruelgame.com. Retrieved 24 November 2014.
- ^ "Cruel 2 B Kind - about". Cruelgame.com. Retrieved 24 November 2014.
- ^ "cruelgame.com". Persuasive games.com. Retrieved 13 December 2014.
- ^ Bogost, Ian. "Horde of Directors".
- ^ "deanforamericagame.com". Dean for America. Retrieved 11 January 2014.
- ^ "deanforamericagame.com". Dean for America. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
- ^ "The State of Play: Creators and Critics on Video Game Culture". Seven Stories Press. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
External links
- Official website
- Ian Bogost talks about Serious Games at XML
- Bio at The Art History of Games Conference
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