Fields of research, topics and themes to be to be covered, digested and put in relation to each other in keynote talks, workshops, courses at universities are e.g.:

  • the power of storytelling
  • interactive narratives / design
  • synthetic worlds / storyworlds
  • brain science / cognitive science
  • serious games / digital education
  • hacktivism
  • new media art
  • digital transformation
  • art games
  • crypto art
  • Nordic larp
  • game design
  • reality & (science) fiction
  • mis- & disinformation
  • the society of brains
  • cross- & transmedia
  • the benefits of idleness/doing nothing

Examples of previous talks / venues / institutions:

“New Concepts, New Worlds, New Roles” part of the course: New Visual Worlds, New Stories: Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Artificial Intelligence, 2018

@ Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University, Boston, MA

“Real Life Sim – Our World Understood As A Game”

@ GAMEON conference, Video Game Culture Con, 16-17 November 2019, Vilnius, Lithuania

“Life as a bad larp design”

@Solmukohta 2020 online collection of talks of the Nordic Larp conference cancelled due to the Covid-19 lockdown.

“The World Really Is…Fiction!”

@ ALIBISFORINTERACTION conference held on 22-23 October 2015 in Landskrona, southern Sweden.

“Nordic Larp, Bleeding & echte Gefühle”, Berlin Games Week, Gamefest,

@ Computerspielemuseum Berlin, Germany

  • “Behind The Curtain: how the brain creates reality through fiction”, Solmukohta 2016 conference, @ M/S Symphony cruise ship, Helsinki, Finland

or

  • “Storytelling, Choice & the Senses: Filling the Gaps” Society in the modern media space, Track: Manipulative technologies in the media as a means of influence public opinion; International scientific-practical conference, @ St. Petersburg State Institute of Cinema and Television, St. Petersburg, Russia
  • “The Science of Doing Nothing”, Torino Film Lab, @ Karlovy Vary Filmfestival
  • “Interactive Storyworlds” @ Peking University, School of Software & Microelectronics / Dept. for Digital Arts & Design, Beijing, China