Curriculum Vitae Jesper Juul

Born in 1970 in Århus, Denmark.

Current occupation

• Video Game Lecture and Researcher at the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab.

Education

• February 1999: M.A. in Danish literature from University of Copenhagen with the thesis "En kamp mellem spil og fortælling": http://www.jesperjuul.net/thesis.
• 2000-2003: Ph.D. studies at IT University of Copenhagen.
• February-July 2003: Visiting scholar at Comparative Media Studies, MIT, Boston.
• October 15th 2003: Finished Ph.D. dissertation, Half-Real: Video Games between real Rules and Fictional Worlds.
• January 16th 2004: Successfully defended Ph.D. dissertation. Committee: Peter Bøgh Andersen, Marie-Laure Ryan, and Brian Sutton-Smith.

Academic publications

Books

• Half-Real: Video Games between Real Rules and Fictional Worlds. Cambridge: MIT Press 2005.

Book chapters

• Introduction to Game Time / Time to play. In Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Pat Harrigan: First Person, Cambridge: MIT Press 2004.

• "Hvad spillet betyder" / "What the Game Means". In Ida Engholm & Lisbeth Klastrup (eds:): Digitale Verdener. Copenhagen: Gyldendal 2005.

• Games telling stories? In Joost Raessens and Jeffrey Goldstein (eds.): Handbook of Computer Game Studies. MIT Press 2005.

• Without a Goal: On Open and Expressive Games. In Videogame/Player/Text, edited by Tanya Krzywinska and Barry Atkins. Manchester: Manchester University Press 2007 (in press).

• "Variation over Time: The Transformation of Space in Single-Screen Action Games". In
  Friedrich von Borries, Steffen P. Walz, Ulrich Brinkmann, Matthias Böttger (eds): Space Time Play. Basel: Birkhäuser 2007 (in press).

Articles and peer-reviewed conference presentations

• November 1998: Article in the literary magazine Kritik #135: "En kamp mellem spil og fortælling."

• November 1998: Paper presentation at the Digital Arts and Culture conference in Bergen: "A clash between game and narrative" (http://cmc.uib.no/dac/)

• May 1999: Article in the magazine Det ny reception: "Nettet, der aldrig var." ["The net that never was"] http://www.jesperjuul.net/text.

• August 2000: Paper presentation at the Digital Arts and Culture conference in Bergen: "What computer games can and can't do"

• March 2001: Computer Games & Digital Textualities conference at the IT University of Copenhagen. Paper presentation, Play time, Event time, Themability.

• April 2001: Paper presentation at the Digital Arts and Culture conference in Providence, Rhode Island: Game Time.

• June 30th 2001: Paper presentation at the Game Cultures conference in Bristol: Gameplay: What are Games Really?

• July 1st 2001: Article, Games Telling Stories? and review, The Repeatedly lost Art of Studying Games in Game Studies.

• April 6th 2002: Paper presentation at the Playing with the future conference, Manchester: Protect your resource gathering units at all cost: Sketching a theory of gameplay.

• June 8th 2002: Paper presentation at the Computer Games and Digital Cultures conference, Tampere, Finland: The open and the closed: Games of emergence and games of progression.

• April 9th 2003: Column for the IGDA [international game developers association] website: Just what is it that makes Computer Games so Different, so Appealing?

• May 30-31st 2003: Presentation at the Digital genres Conference Chicago: Transmedial Gaming: Exploring the affinity between computer and games.

• November 4th-6th 2003: Keynote speaker at the DiGRA Level Up conference in Utrecht: The Game, the Player, the World: Looking for a Heart of Gameness.

• February 2004: "Working with the Player's Repertoire". Imagina Conference, Monaco.

• June 2005: "Half-Real: The Interplay between Game Rules and Game Fiction". DiGRA conference, Vancouver, Canada.

• June 2005: "Playing Culture" presentation at Games, Learning, and Society conference, Madison, Wisconsin. (With Eric Zimmerman.)

• December 2005: Panelist, "Gameplay: The Great Debate", Digital Arts and Culture Conference, IT University of Copenhagen.

• "Swap Adjacent Gems to Make Sets of Three: A History of Matching Tile Games". Artifact journal. Volume 2, 2007. London: Routledge.

• "A certain Level of Abstraction". Conference paper at the DiGRA conference, Tokyo Japan, September 2007.
  

Keynotes and selected invited talks

• November 26-28th 2001: Invited speaker at NIK2001 in Tromsø, the annual meeting of the Norwegian association of computer science researchers. Talk title: Fun in theory.

• February 3rd 2002: Invited lecturer at Mediamatic's Interactive Vertellers [interactive narrators] workshop in Amsterdam. Talk title: The art of letting go.

• August 27th 2002: Panelist at the Game Developer's Conference Europe academic day.

• August 28th 2002: Presentation at Game Developer's Conference Europe, London: Making sense of gameplay and emergence.

• March 20th 2003: Panelist at the Fate of Creativity in the Videogame Industry colloquium, Comparative Media Studies, MIT. (With Ken Levine, Irrational Games and Brian Sullivan, Iron Lore.)

• April 9th 2003: Presentation for the Scholar Technology Group a Brown University: About the game.

• April 23rd 2003: Guest lecture at the Liquid Narrative Group, NCSU, Raleigh, North Carolina.

• November 4th-6th 2003: Keynote speaker at the DiGRA Level Up conference in Utrecht: The Game, the Player, the World: Looking for a Heart of Gameness.

• February 2004: Converging Media, Oslo, Norway.

• October 2004: Speaker, Steirische Herbst, Graz, Austria.

• June 2005 : Games, Learning and Society conference, Wisconsin, Madison: "Playing Culture". With Eric Zimmerman.

• December 2005: Presentation "Without a goal" at Serious Games Summit, Lyon.

• March 2006: Keynote presentation at Serious Games Summit, Game Developer's Conference, San José.

• March 2006: "A Game in the Hands of a Player". From Gamers to Gaming, Göteborg, Sweden.

• October 2006: Invited talk at Georgia Tech.

• November 2006: Invited talk at Penn. "The problem with Goals: New ways of motivating players".

• November 2006: Invited talk at Comparative Media Studies, MIT, Boston.

• November 2006: Online panel arranged by Manifesto Games: "Games As Art" with Henry Jenkins, Santiago Siri, and Eric Zimmerman.

• January 2007: Invited talk at NYC Game Salon. New School, New York City: "Actually: What a game means".

• February 2007: Invited talk at ENJMIN, France.

• March 2007: Panelist at the MetaGame panel, Game Developers Conference, San Francisco.

• April 2007: Invited speaker at Theory of the Novel for the 21st Century workshop, Stanford University.

• May 2008: Keynote speaker, Philosophy of Computer Games Conference, Potsdam.

Teaching

• Autumn 1995: A series of workshops in the new children's house at Louisiana Art Museum. (With Jonas Iversen, MouseHouse).

• 1996: Teaches Java and JavaScript programming at NetJob, Aarhus, Denmark.

• Spring 1999: Develops and teaches the course Digital Aesthetics at the IT University of Copenhagen..

• September-December 2001: Developed and taught the course Computer Games at the IT University of Copenhagen. (Covering theory and practice.)

• September-December 2002: Developed and taught the course on Designing an online computer game at the IT University of Copenhagen. (With Susana Tosca).

• 2004-: Developed and taught the course Computer Game Design at the IT University of Copenhagen.

• April 2006: 3-day workshop on game design and theory, IO Interactive.

• Spring 2007: Co-taught the course Game Development at the IT University of Copenhagen.
• Spring 2008: Co-taught the course Game Design at Comparative Media Studies, MIT.

Professional experience

• June 1995-: Company, Soup Games.

• 1992-1993: Develops the fractal program Lyapunovia for the Commodore Amiga. (http://soupgames.net/lyapunovia)

• April 1994-August 1995: Work at the multimedia company MouseHouse.

• August 1996: Project manager, concept developer and programmer on the children's game "Kampen om Kagen" ["The battle for the cake"] for MouseHouse and the Silkeborg public library.

• January-March 1997: Programs the Macintosh version of the triple CD-ROM game "Blackout" at Deadline Media.

• April 1997: Develops the game "Puls in Space" for Netwave. (http://soupgames.net/pspace)

• June 1997 - August 1998: Works with Brennan Young, Xavier Pianet, and Mads Rydahl under the name "The Planet".

• July 1997: Develops the game "Slimebusters" for Egmont Online.

• September 1997: Develops the graphical chat system "Højhuset" for Netwave. (http://www.n.dk)

• Marts 1998: Develops the game "Euro-Space" for JuniBevægelsen. (http://soupgames.net/eurospace)

• December 1998-January 1999: Develops the game "PingPong" for TV2 Interactive. (http://spil.tv2.dk)

• January 1999: Text chat for the music site g.dk and Scandinavian Online.

• July-September 1999: Develops the game Flag Rally for Tele Danmark Internet. (With Rasmus Keldorff.)

• November-December 1999: Develops a small game engine for a series of promotional games for Lego in collaboration with Cite.

• September 2000: Finished the graphical chat Højhuset 2 for Netstationen/Scandinavia Online.

• January 2001: Develops the game Detonator for TV2 Interactive (with Rasmus Keldorff.)

• 2004-2007: Assistant professor, IT University of Copenhagen.

• 2007: Developes the casual game High Seas for GameTrust.

Visiting scholar appointments

• February-July 2003: Comparative Media Studies, MIT, Boston.
• August-December 2006: Parsons New School of Design, New York City.

Reviewing and Judging

• Editorial board member, Game Studies journal 2001-

• Editorial board member, Games & Culture Journal 2007-

• Webby Awards judge 2004-

• Values at Play advisory board member 2008-

• Digital Arts and Culture conference, Brown University, 2001.

• Computer Games and Digital Culture conference, Tampere University, 2002.

• Digital Arts and Culture conference, Melbourne, 2003.

• Imagina conference, Monaco, 2005.

• Digitial Arts and Culture conference, Perth, 2007.

• Mobile Media conference. University of Sydney, 2007.

• Head of game design reviewing, DiGRA conference, Tokyo 2007.

• MIT Press

• Morgan Kaufman

• Norsk Medietidsskrift

• Information Communication & Society

• Instructional Science

• IADIS Gaming 2008

Conference organisation

• Co-organizer, Computer Games and Digital Textualities conference, IT University of Copenhagen 2001.

• January 24th 2003: Organizer of the computer game seminar Spillere og Spillerpositioner [Players and player positions] at the IT University of Copenhagen.

• Advisory board member, DAC conference, Perth 2007.

• Advisory board member, DiGRA conference, Tokyo 2007.

Miscellaneous

• November 1996: Winner, Danish Java Cup programming competition (arranged by Sun Microsystems)

• February 4th 2004: Winner, young researcher award, Imagina 2004, Monaco.

• 2004-2007: Co-editor, Game Studies journal.

• October 2006: Half-Real listed as one of "50 Books For Everyone In the Game Industry".

• December 2006: Half-Real finalist for book of the year in Game Developer Magazine's Frontline Awards.

Art projects

• Summer 1994: The installation "Gaston" for Electronic Café. (With Charlie Gaugler.)

• April 1995: The art installation "Receptionsmaskinen" for the Danish minister of culture's conference on information technology, the international film school in Ebeltoft. (With Mads Rydahl.)

• June 1995-May 1996: The art installation "Men vi forstår jo hinanden" ["we do understand each other"] as part of the TIEA at MouseHouse, Vestergade, Copenhagen. (With Mads Rydahl.)

• April 1996: Creates the spoof web page "Your own virtual hamster". (http://www.jesperjuul.net/hamster) (with Brennan Young).

• February 1997: Exhibits the poetic art installation "Ord & Stol" ["Word and chair"] at gallery Eat Me, Sortedams Dossering, Copenhagen. '

• April 1998: Exhibits the graphical and musical installation "Loop in A Minor" at the Art Crash conference, Århus.

• August 31st 1998: Exhibits "Loop in A Minor" at the opening of Malmö Högskola.

• September-November 1996: Develops the computer part of Lars von Trier's exhibition "Verdensuret" ["World clock"], Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen.