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Very clearly, a group of people are completely disenfranchised with the direction games are going in, and they don’t know who to blame so they blame anyone who has any sort of say in the industry – but not the people they like. The developers who are still making the games they appreciate – they’re…
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Blank Arcade returns after its successful 2014 edition in Salt Lake City, Utah. Blank Arcade: Games out of Joint is more than just a sequel, mod or expansion pack. It revisits its own concept through an exhibition of experimental games and artworks that push the boundaries of game design and theory. The curators invite artists,…
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Blank Arcade returns after its successful 2014 edition in Salt Lake City, Utah. Blank Arcade: Games out of Joint is more than just a sequel, mod or expansion pack. It revisits its own concept through an exhibition of experimental games and artworks that push the boundaries of game design and theory. The curators invite artists,…
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“Governor,” a reporter asked, “what is an intellectual luxury?” Reagan described a four-credit course at the University of California at Davis on organizing demonstrations. “I figure that carrying a picket sign is sort of like, oh, a lot of things you pick up naturally,” he said, “like learning how to swim by falling off the…
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Design is in flux. Where its practitioners were once expected to produce chairs, lamps, logos and letterheads, today their work is often less visible. Increasingly, design is concerned with interactions and experiences—it’s about software and the vast systems that power it. We asked nine top designers to talk about their craft and what it means…
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Interactive storytelling is also much harder than it looks. Museums should make time for slower digital experiences (via iamdanw)
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The subjective thinker is not a scientist-scholar; he is an artist. To exist is an art. The subjective thinker is aesthetic enough for his life to have aesthetic content, ethical enough to regulate it, dialectical enough in thinking to master it. From Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments by Søren Kierkegaard (via kierkegaarddane)
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I knew artspeak had reached a self-congratulatory low when I recently heard a curator refer to her “blogging practice.” (via magnificentruin)
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dynamicafrica: A Brief History of Cumbia and its African Roots. Like many dance and music styles that have emerged and have been popularized throughout Latin America, and in Latin American diaspora communities, Cumbia has its backbone and roots in the culture, traditions and practices of the enslaved Africans brought to this region of the world.…
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Formalism: Once More With Feeling
dropouthangoutspaceout: So discourse being what it is, we (and by “we” I mean a subset of game studies academics, game designers and critics) have somehow found ourselves back discussing the merits or pitfalls of formalism, alongside the creation of the (what I think is misguided) concept of “ludoessentialism”. I think, for all the frustration I…