Sebastian Möring (he/him) is Professor of Game Design at Macromedia University of Applied Sciences |Campus Berlin. His research focuses on the philosophy and aesthetics of computer games, in-game photography, green game studies, computer games in an educational context, games and literature, and game archiving. In 2021 he received the teaching award of the state of Brandenburg. Sebastian is co-speaker of AG Games, an SIG within the German Society for Media Studies (GfM) and in 2024 he was the program co-chair of DiGRA, the annual conference of the Digital Games Research Association. He is co-editor of the anthology Screen Images. In-Game Photography, Screenshot, Screencast (Kadmos, 2023) and co-author of the chapter ‘Climate-Game-Worlds: A Media-Aesthetic Look at the Depiction and Function of Climate in Computer Games’ (in Ecogames. Playful Perspectives on the Climate Crisis, Amsterdam University Press, 2024).
In his talk, Sebastian will give an overview over the multifaceted and fast-growing phenomenon called in-game photography. He will introduce us to a variety of photographic practices in computer games that have emerged in recent years and will present a number of in-game photographic artworks and artists.