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Sonia Fizek
Sonia Fizek is a games and media scholar. She holds a professorship in media and game studies at the Cologne Game Lab at TH Köln – University of Applied Sciences. Fizek is also a visiting professor at the University of Lower Silesia in Wroclaw (Poland) and a co-editor-in-chief of the international Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds. In her latest book Playing at a Distance (MIT Press, 2022), she explores the borderlands of video game aesthetic with focus on automation, AI and posthuman forms of play. Fizek’s current research concentrates on the environmental sustainability of video games. She is a principal investigator of ‘Greening Games’ (www.greeningames.eu), an international project on the sustainability of video games (2021–24, funded by the German Academic Exchange Service EU/DAAD).
Contact: TH Köln – University of Applied Sciences, Cologne Game Lab, Schanzenstraße 28, 51063 Cologne, Germany.
