Lars Schmeink

Europa-Universität Flensburg

Lars Schmeink is currently Research Fellow at the Europa-Universität Flensburg and has just returned from a Leverhulme Visiting Professorship at the University of Leeds. In 2010, he inaugurated the Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung and served as President of the Board for 10 years. He has been involved in research on the fantastic, science fiction, and popular culture in research projects like „FutureWork“ or the „World Hobbit Project“ and has written extensively on these topics. He is the author of Biopunk Dystopias (Liverpool UP, 2016) and the co-editor of Cyberpunk and Visual Culture (Routledge, 2018), The Routledge Companion to Cyberpunk Culture (2020), Fifty Key Figures in Cyberpunk Culture (Routledge, 2022) and New Perspectives on Contemporary German Science Fiction (Palgrave, 2022). His current research, a book on the German movement of the „Progressive Fantastic“ will be published in 2023 by Lever Press, University of Michigan.

www.larsschmeink.de

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All Sessions by Lars Schmeink

  • 3. Thu

    Game Studies

  • 10:15  - 11:00
    With the Metaverse as the new buzzword among tech evangelists and industry’s digital analysts alike, this talk wants to explore the term’s (and concept’s) science-fictional origins: from Vernor Vinge to William Gibson, TRON to The Matrix, and the Other Realm to The Oasis. Science Fiction has many variations of immersive virtual realities and our interactions with them. How we imagine virtual worlds to look, which aspects of reality to mimic, or which additional benefits to provide - all of this is relevant to the current debates about the functions, the politics, the technology, and the social impact that metaversial technology will produce. Analyzing the different incarnations of the Metaverse in SF can thus help us determine the challenges to come.
    Where
    Open Space

  • 12:15  - 13:00
    Roundtable with summit speakers.
    Where
    Open Space




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