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Marketplace: In your role at Kleiner Perkins, you work with companies to build and design from the beginning. At what point in that process do people start to notice good design? Maeda: People’s first notion of design is … pretty stuff. And if you’re there, I have to get them out of that. It’s about…
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Crazy Block is a new free Android game available right now on Google Play. It’s also the creation of 14-year-old Spanish girl Lucia Sanchez, who taught herself how to develop a game and released it earlier this month all on her own. She is the latest example of how open tools and platforms are enabling…
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It upends the logic of a regular shop. “The priority isn’t ‘get as much as you can for that item in the marketplace,’ ” Ms. Tobin said. “The priority becomes the artist’s intention and what we all think is right for that work.” For the Walker Art Center, a Shop That Peddles Evanescence – NYTimes.com…
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Critical Making? |
Critical Making? | “The use of the term critical making to describe our work signals a desire to theoretically and pragmatically connect two modes of engagement with the world that are often held separate–critical thinking, typically understood as conceptually and linguisticaly based, and physical ‘making,’ goal-based material work.” Matt Ratto, “Critical Making: Conceptual and Material…
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What do we prioritize when we talk about Digital Arts Marketing?: 1) Enabling more diverse people to access, co-create and appreciate artforms that take digital culture as their tools, subject and medium? or 2) Deploying existing digital and social media to grow audiences and so increase the income for all existing artforms? Digital Arts Marketing…
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#AltGames #AltGames #AltGames – Fireside by Game Jolt
#AltGames #AltGames #AltGames – Fireside by Game Jolt James Earl Cox III (@thebatman) has created a compendium of contemporary #AltGames for us to experience. This compendium serves to help map the contours of the space, and works as an SEO hack. The latter is a political gesture meant to make visible, while the former is…
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#AltGames #AltGames #AltGames – Fireside by Game Jolt
#AltGames #AltGames #AltGames – Fireside by Game Jolt in order to help the effort: altgames (#AltGames) are an important (re)assertion and (re)affirmation of an inclusive aesthetics for videogames. It has no choice but to identify as an alternative aesthetics as its practitioners are intersectionally and redundantly marginalized by mainstream ones. An important link is the…