Rules themselves create fictions by the very fact of complying with their respective rules, is separated from real life where there is no activity…
Category: distributed imagination
towards the phenomenology of Angry Birds
draft: The phenomenology of Angry Birds, or, how to live in virtual gravity [PDF download here] Abstract Taking the popular mobile game Angry Birds…
gender gamified
From a discussion on Kotaku.com following the redesign of female soldiers in Warface for the Russian market, apparently based on a survey of Russian…
Connecting the Dots…
I presented at Connecting the Dots: movement, space and the digital image at Cambridge University’s CRASSH last Friday – thanks to a kind invitation from Jenna Ng. I shared…
permeable realities
Video here. Current developments in mobile and locative media, and in augmented / mixed reality media (for instance at the Pervasive Media Studio…
The Reality of Imagination
A moment that didn’t make it into the final video version of a microethological study of play across a Real-Time Strategy game (Age of…
Monsters, mini-games, and Mr Happy
A video essay on virtual and actual play. Published in Audio-Visual Thinking: a journal of academic videos, no. 3, Sep 2011