The Fault in Our Star Children – Warhammer Conference 2025 YouTube video by Warhammer Conference

Absolutely thrilled that my work has been featured in this year's Warhammer Conference. The full presentation is available on YouTube here:

Dr Nikolas Matovinovic is an early career researcher working in Melbourne Australia. His work focuses on posthumanism and fantasy in popular screen media, with an interdisciplinary emphasis on the physical sciences and bioethics. His PhD research studied posthumanist fantasy in the films of the director and musician John Carpenter and his current research program focuses on materialism in speculative and fantastic fiction. His writing has been published in Games and Culture, Film Criticism, and Film International.

My new personal site is now live, after some wrangling with my incredibly amateur CSS skills: nikolasmatovinovic.neocities.org

Check out my open access article in Games and Culture on 'Splatoon 3', cosy gaming, and 'Squid Game the Challenge':

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#SquidGame #Netflix #SquidGameTheChallenge #BeastGames #Cosy #Cozy #Nintendo #NintendoSwitch #Switch2 #Splatoon #SalmonRun #cephalopod #tentacular

I feel safe hopping on the train now I know conductor Pikachu is looking after me

Presented the next part of my research on tentacular media at #DiGRAA at #UniSA. it was my first time presenting at DiGRAA and wow, what a wonderful atmosphere and group of people. The paper that's already out on this topic you can find it here, open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

"Vase, with octopuses and Mount Fuji" c. 1880, Japan. - Art Gallery of South Australia