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Threshold
clairehosking: I don’t think anyone has to be interested in game definitions, mechanics, and inclusivity, but I am, mostly because new players/makers should hash out what games mean to them and what their yardsticks to measure games will be. I see debate over the extent of “games” as a sign that most people feel like…
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Theorising the Web 2014 talk: What does a Materialist Account of a Ludic Century Look Like? Or How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love Counter Strike
dropouthangoutspaceout: This is the transcript of the talk I gave at this year’s Theorizing the Web Conference in New York City. I know there is a video recording from teh conference circulating somewhere, but I had to cut out some of the depth to fit the talk into the time permitting. Consider this the directors…
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For this essay, Mr. Perelman has entered only one keyword: “privacy.” With the click of a button, the program produced a string of bloated sentences that, though grammatically correct and structurally sound, have no coherent meaning. Not to humans, anyway. But Mr. Perelman is not trying to impress humans. He is trying to fool machines.…
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notational: Just got word today that some of my work was selected for inclusion in an upcoming File ElectronicLanguage InternationalFestival . http://www.filefestival.org/site_2007/pagina_conteudo_livre.asp?a1=309&a2=934&id=2 it looks like a great Festival to see in person. For any of my new media friends, have you attended one? I’d love an opportunity to visit Brazil..and am considering a search for…
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maxistentialist: Death and Taxes: Parents in Idaho called the cops last week on junior-high student Brady Kissel when she had the nerve to help distribute a book they’d succeeded in banning from the school curriculum. The book in question was Sherman Alexie’s young adult novel “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.” Published in…
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Designer Duds: Losing Our Seat at the Table
Designer Duds: Losing Our Seat at the Table maxistentialist: mills: If design hadn’t triumphed by 2012, it had by 2013. Three years after launching the iPad, Apple was the world’s most valuable company, and even second-order pundits knew why: design. Steve Jobs’ remark that design was “how it works” had achieved what seemed like widespread…
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prostheticknowledge: History of Art: Net Art Online resource by Thomas Dreher outlining the backround to Net Art from the 1960s onwards, from the design concepts that would make modern computing possible to examples by artists who explored what art could be created by this new technology – sample quote below: In the sixties Joseph Carl…