I visited the last edition of the traveling exhibit Videotopia in Tallahassee (FL), the Computerspielmuseum in Berlin, the ViGaMus in Rome, and many other exhibits in the Silicon Valley area. The rules had to be bent somewhat my project would lead me to many different research centers in North America and Europe. While preparing the grant proposal, I discovered that there are not many permanent facilities relevant to this kind of research in academia. 1 Usually you get this type of grant to go work in an established research center. 2 Videotopia was the first travelling exhibit dedicated to video games and opened in 1996 at the Carn (.)ġ In 2010, I received a postdoctoral research grant from FQRSC to study the history of video games.1 Fonds Québécois de Recherche sur la Société et la Culture.
