gesture from Seth Giddings on Vimeo.
Category: media ethology
gesture, technology and play
This is the website for a symposium organised by Helen W Kennedy, Patrick Crogan and myself at the Pervasive Media Studio in Bristol in…
DiGRA 2015: the past and future of players
ecological and ethological studies of children’s play My contribution to the DiGRA 2015 panel From Game Studies to Studies of Play, with Frans Mäyrä, Sebastian…
what is the state of play? the work of the Opies in the postdigital era
full article here Re-reading Iona Opie’s The People in the Playground (1994) I was struck by the fact that the children she was watching,…
swing test
Brandon Hill Park, one cold, wet and windy December evening…
Animal Crossing economics
The clock and the world’s temporality in Animal Crossing are completely integral. The clock isn’t a measure of time, but virtual time’s arrow itself,…
robots are go
With Silas Adekunle of Reach Robotics I have just been awarded a REACT Prototype grant to research playful robotics. More as it develops, but…
soft worlds
Extracts from a chapter from Gameworlds: virtual media & children’s everyday play: Soft Worlds
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…
dancing… and waiting…
Within the phenomenological framework, we can see how the mobile game-play in both urban and domestic places evokes particular kinds of embodiment, indicative of…
Harlem Shake, gangnam & planking
Field notes, DanceTag test at St Matthias Campus, UWE Bristol 19th Nov 2013 Following a lecture I gave introducing the project to third year…
STS upgrade
Science & Technology Studies talks about ‘users’ as it is not concerned with entertainment or communication technologies in particular. With the advent of digital…