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distributed imagination

Distributed imagination: small steps to an ethology of mind and media This project will theorise the imagination in postdigital mediated environments. Imagination has at best been regarded with suspicion in critical studies of media communication and communion. Its Romantic and humanist legacy, and its associations with art and children, seem to push it aside as […]

prosthetic imagination

Rules themselves create fictions by the very fact of complying with their respective rules, is separated from real life where there is no activity that literally corresponds to any of these games [they] are played for real. As if is not necessary (Caillois 1962, 8). Replace cops and robbers and dolls houses with their digital descendants Grand Theft […]

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 a session with Cambridge’s Alan Blackwell (great talk on the significance and player-generated worlds and virtual computers of Minecraft) and the session was streamed to a hungry audience at HUMlab at Umea University, Sweden. Humlab […]

permeable realities

Video here. Current developments in mobile and locative media, and in augmented / mixed reality media (for instance at the Pervasive Media Studio in Bristol) take the permeability of virtual and actual space as a given. Digital space is thought of not as the worlds within worlds of virtual reality or cyberspace as imagined […]

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 Mythologies) and a paddling pool: One of the children (J), on being told by me (S) that he couldn’t use a footpump in the paddling pool to suck up and squirt […]