Mathias Fuchs is an artist, musician and media scholar. He pioneered in the artistic use of computer games and exhibited work at ISEA, SIGGRAPH, transmediale, DiGRA, futuresonic, EAST, and the Greenwich Millennium Dome. He has been Senior Lecturer at the University of Salford/ UK from 2002 to 2012. In October 2012 he became a professor at Leuphana University in Lüneburg. He was appointed Senior Fellow at the IFK Wien (International Research Centre for Cultural Studies), and is currently senior academic at the Institute of Culture and Aesthetics of Media (ICAM) at Leuphana University in Lüneburg.

Publications include:

Phantasmal Spaces: Archetypical Venues in Computer Games. Bloomsbury Academic, New York 2019

“Weltentzug und Weltzerfall (world-withdrawal and world-decay): Heidegger’s notions of withdrawal from the world and the decays of worlds in the times of computer games.” In: Malcolm MacLean, Wendy Russell & Emily Ryal (eds.): Philosophical Perspectives on Play. Routledge, London 2015

Mathias Fuchs (ed.): Diversity of Play. meson press, Lüneburg 2015