distributed imagination | microethology

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…

on not re-inventing Centrifugal Bumble-Puppy

Posted on June 9, 2015January 11, 2018 By sethgiddings

Outside, in the garden, it was playtime. Naked in the warm June sunshine, six or seven hundred little boys and girls were running with…

prosthetic imagination

Posted on January 12, 2015December 10, 2015 By sethgiddings

Rules themselves create fictions by the very fact of complying with their respective rules, is separated from real life where there is no activity…

towards the phenomenology of Angry Birds

Posted on February 4, 2014October 26, 2016 By sethgiddings

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

Posted on October 10, 2013October 11, 2016 By sethgiddings

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…

Posted on April 17, 2013October 11, 2016 By sethgiddings

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…