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the end of toys

Posted on March 4, 2016March 4, 2016 By sethgiddings

Watch this space for a new project to explore the design, philosophy and lived experience of the toy in children’s postdigital culture. Focussing on…

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small steps to an ethology of mind and media

Posted on December 10, 2015July 2, 2020 By sethgiddings

Slides for my talk at the Media Theory in Transit symposium organised by Yigit Soncul and Jussi Parikka at Winchester School of Art, 24th…

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pythiatechnics

Posted on November 29, 2015October 26, 2016 By sethgiddings

What is the temporality of the design process? There is a moment of production, a blank period of distribution and installation as the object…

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design and the black box

Posted on November 29, 2015October 26, 2016 By sethgiddings

Designing for playful media and games presents a particular challenge – not for designers, but for the study of design. The most useful critical…

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the imaginative turn I

Posted on November 26, 2015May 11, 2016 By sethgiddings

Yigit Soncul and Jussi Parikka organised Media Theory in Transit, a stimulating symposium at WSA this week. Full details and the programme are here….

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Lightbug at The Rooms

Posted on November 8, 2015October 26, 2016 By sethgiddings

The full prototype of the Lightbug swing was installed by Tine Bech as the centrepiece of the REACT exhibition The Rooms in Bristol 4th…

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rooftops and birds

Posted on September 25, 2015October 26, 2016 By sethgiddings

This was written for our Play Sandbox journal back in November, and I forgot to put a copy here. Tine and I are in…

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global media mo(ve)ment

Posted on September 25, 2015October 26, 2016 By sethgiddings

From induction session for MA Global Media Management at WSA… The videogame Sonic the Hedgehog  was released in the United States and Europe in…

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gesture, play, and video

Posted on August 6, 2015October 26, 2016 By sethgiddings

  gesture from Seth Giddings on Vimeo.

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gesture, technology and play

Posted on August 6, 2015October 26, 2016 By sethgiddings

This is the website for a symposium organised by Helen W Kennedy, Patrick Crogan and myself at the Pervasive Media Studio in Bristol in…

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SimKnowledge

Posted on July 28, 2015January 11, 2018 By sethgiddings

I have a chapter in Michelle Henning’s Museum Media, one of Wiley’s new International Handbooks of Museum Studies. It’s called ‘SimKnowledge: what museums can learn…

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Lightbug video

Posted on June 26, 2015October 26, 2016 By sethgiddings
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