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Meeting place: Virtual reality

The digital revolution has changed our lives dramatically, and technological development will permeate tomorrow’s society in ways we cannot even imagine today. We invite the audience, game developers, researchers and players to the “Big Stage” and we will address issues related to our digital life: Freedom, moral grey zones and how technological development affects us as individuals and societies. How far has the development of VR technology come? What are game developers dreaming up? Can the virtual world become more real than the “real” world? Are we ourselves in computer games?

Workshop: New facets of gaming

In connection with the project “Digital Life”, Fritt Ord invites gaming enthusiasts and gaming critics to submit texts about new facets of gaming. How should one write about computer games? Why are computer games important?" What deserves emphasis? How we can take this new medium seriously and meet it with an independent, critical and possibly personal tone?

Is "Norwegian Islam" possible?

• What is actually needed to strengthen moderate forces of Islam in Europe and Norway?
• Is it possible to envisage Islam adapted to conditions in Norway? How?
• What are the most important strategies for fighting Islamic extremism?

Theme days: "The vital point of contention"

The ‘kåkå quarrelsome cathedral’ once again invites the public to theme days in Stavanger in collaboration with Fritt Ord. This time the point of departure will be the concept of a “fellowship of disagreement”. At kåkå, we say that “the good quarrelsome person strengthens the fellowship of disagreement.” In a reply regarding the importance of the fellowship of disagreement in the newspaper Aftenbladet, the Chair of the Board and artistic leader concluded with the following twist on Norway’s Constituent Declaration of 1814: “In disagreement and faith until the Dovre mountains fall”. It is only with significant, good enough and not least visible disagreement as a foundation that makes it possible for politicians to frame sufficiently robust consensus resolutions in the city council and Storting that will afford us a stable and democratic Norway in future.

The Art of Storytelling in Games

How to develop the art of good storytelling in today’s computer games? The diversity of computer games is getting continuously broader: On the one hand, the blockbusters open up new worlds through magnificent special effects. On the other, they tell intimate and personal stories by insinuative, subtle means. Which possibilities do we have ahead for storytelling in games? How do games learn from other media, and what do other media learn from games? To read, see, do – how are the stories influenced by the media’s different properties?

The Art of Storytelling in Games

How to develop the art of good storytelling in today’s computer games? The diversity of computer games is getting continuously broader: On the one hand, the blockbusters open up new worlds through magnificent special effects. On the other, they tell intimate and personal stories by insinuative, subtle means. Which possibilities do we have ahead for storytelling in games? How do games learn from other media, and what do other media learn from games? To read, see, do – how are the stories influenced by the media’s different properties?

Dugma – The Button and images of the enemy

Dugma – The Button and images of the enemy
The Fritt Ord Foundation and Medieoperatørene invite the public to a screening of the new documentary film Dugma – The Button by Director Pål Salahdin Refsdal, on Monday, 14 March 2016, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Uranienborgveien 2 in Oslo. The screening will be followed by a conversation about images of the enemy between Pål Salahdin Refsdal and Thomas Hegghammer, a researcher at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment. Lene Bomann-Larsen, a philosopher who is research manager at the Norwegian Military Academy, will moderate the session.

Olivia Arthur and Eugene Richards: The photograph and the instruments at hand

The Fritt Ord Foundation and the Norwegian Journal of Photography (NJP) invite the public to a seminar featuring photographers Olivia Arthur and Eugene Richards on Thursday, 10 March 2016, from 5.00 p.m. to 8.00 p.m. at Uranienborgveien 2 in Oslo.

Try, err, learn. Games as hype or Holy Grail?

Is there too much optimism associated with the use of computer games in teaching? What possibilities and challenges do the games offer, and is there a difference in the learning effect between commercial games and educational games?

Try, err, learn. Games as hype or Holy Grail?

Is there too much optimism associated with the use of computer games in teaching? What possibilities and challenges do the games offer, and is there a difference in the learning effect between commercial games and educational games?

Censorship on the agenda

The Fritt Ord Foundation’s Competition for Upper Secondary Schools is in the process of being launched. The Fritt Ord Foundation hopes to contribute to carving out a stronger position for discussions of freedom of expression and issues of democracy in Norwegian classrooms. What is the status of freedom of expression in schools for students and teachers when it comes to sensitive topics?

Call for nominations for the 2016 Free Media Award

The Fritt Ord Foundation and the ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius hereby invite nominations of journalists, bloggers, Internet media and newspapers for the 2016 Free Media Award.

"Talibanistan" by Anders Sømme Hammer – a preview screening and discussion

The Fritt Ord Foundation invites the public to a preview screening of the documentary film “Talibanistan” by Anders Sømme Hammer on Monday, 22 February 2016, from 7.00–9.00 p.m. at the Fritt Ord Foundation’s premises, Uranienborgveien 2, Oslo. The screening will be followed by a discussion between Anders Sømme Hammer and Kristian Berg Harpviken, director of PRIO. “Talibanistan” is a documentary about the serious situation in Afghanistan, where the director has met and conducted in-depth interviews with seven members of the Taliban in the field, war victims and activists.

"Talibanistan" by Anders Sømme Hammer – a preview screening and discussion

The Fritt Ord Foundation invites the public to a preview screening of the documentary film “Talibanistan” by Anders Sømme Hammer on Monday, 22 February 2016, from 7.00–9.00 p.m. at the Fritt Ord Foundation’s premises, Uranienborgveien 2, Oslo. The screening will be followed by a discussion between Anders Sømme Hammer and Kristian Berg Harpviken, director of PRIO. “Talibanistan” is a documentary about the serious situation in Afghanistan, where the director has met and conducted in-depth interviews with seven members of the Taliban in the field, war victims and activists.

Taboo and wahoo. A debate on youth and self-censorship.

The Fritt Ord Foundation and Si ;D invite the public to a panel discussion on Wednesday, 17 February, from 6 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. at the Fritt Ord Foundation, Uranienborgveien 2, Oslo.

Video, Truth, and Expression in the Age of YouTube

Human Rights, Human Wrongs Documentary Film Festival, Witness, and Fritt Ord invite the public to the seminar Video, Truth, and Expression in the Age of YouTube, Tuesday 16 February, 2016, at 14:00-16:00 at Cinemateket (Oslo).