The Digital Arts & Culture 2005 Conference program is now available. The selection of papers looks intriguing, although what I find quite ... interesting? odd? ... is that for all of the papers on computer games, the only title of a game mentioned in *any* of the papers is Facade.
That was after a quick glace through the PDF, so maybe I missed something. And I understand that DAC isn't just about games, so maybe it's just a quirk of this particular conference.
In any case, it looks like a great event. A travel budget - yet another reason to finish the dissertation and work towards the tenure-track.