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Our studio works in sensitive environments, on highly sensitive topics. The consequences of failure are not abstract: people that we know will be impacted in ways that range from social shame through to violence and imprisonment. In a world where much of the talk is of anonymising or pseudo-anonymising data, we consider knowing the source…
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Call for Artworks « Disruption – ISEA 2015
Call for Artworks « Disruption – ISEA 2015 Call for Artworks We are looking for a broad range of works that respond to the ISEA2015 theme, including but not limited to site-specific work, interactive projects, online works, performances, screenings, installations, visual art, electronic literature, works that engage with public space, photography, media art, interdisciplinary projects,…
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Whenever I raise the Anthropocene with humanities-trained people, their first instinct is to critique it as a concept. It’s hard to buck that liberal arts and grad school training, but it’s an impulse to resist. It’s time to rethink the whole project of ‘humanist culture’, to which even us card-carrying anti-humanists still actually belong. The…
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Machinations Wiki
Machinations Wiki Machinations is a theoretical framework and an interactive, dynamic, graphical representation that describes games as dynamic systems and focuses on closed feedback loops within them. The intention is to find a way to express and investigate (recurrent) game structures methodologically. Machinations offers a new lens on the intuitive and delicate practice of game…
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MAGFest 13 Indie Video Game Showcase accepting applications
MAGFest 13 Indie Video Game Showcase accepting applications MAGFest 13 Indie Video Game Showcase (MIVS) accepting applications Submit your game for entrance to the 2015 MIVS! Attention all indie game studios! The MAGFest Indie Videogame Showcase (or MIVS, for short) is now accepting applications to showcase at MAGFest 13! Are you an indie game developer…
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Had the concept of software been available to me, I imagine I would have felt as though I were installing something that exponentially increased what one day would be called bandwidth, though bandwidth of what, exactly, I remain unable to say. William Gibson, on reading Jorge Luis Borges for the first time (taken from ‘Distrust that…