Generated by All in One SEO v5.0.0.1, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # microethology Seth Giddings' research site ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://www.microethology.net/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [robot](https://www.microethology.net/robot/) - [virtual reality](https://www.microethology.net/virtual-reality/) - [cyberspace](https://www.microethology.net/cyberspace/) - [toyetic objects](https://www.microethology.net/toyetic-objects/) - [postdigital playthings](https://www.microethology.net/postdigital-playthings/) - [unnerved](https://www.microethology.net/unnerved/) - [miniature war](https://www.microethology.net/miniature-war/) - [intrusive images](https://www.microethology.net/intrusive-images/) - [machin thinking](https://www.microethology.net/machin-thinking/) - [under the pebbles...](https://www.microethology.net/under-the-pebbles/) - [nervous glitch](https://www.microethology.net/nervous-glitch/) - [toys or games](https://www.microethology.net/toys-or-games/) - [LEGO studies](https://www.microethology.net/lego-studies/) - [barbaric toys](https://www.microethology.net/barbaric-toys/) - [talking toys](https://www.microethology.net/talking-toys/) - [toys or barbarism](https://www.microethology.net/toys-or-barbarism/) - [playthings and playtimes](https://www.microethology.net/playthings-and-playtimes/) - [ToyTheory reviews](https://www.microethology.net/toytheory-review/) - [read me!](https://www.microethology.net/read-me/) - [best inventions](https://www.microethology.net/best-inventions/) - [toyetic thinking](https://www.microethology.net/toyetic-thinking/) - [cover](https://www.microethology.net/cover/) - [a toy theory of knowledge and belief](https://www.microethology.net/a-toy-theory-of-knowledge-and-belief/) - [the machine wants to play](https://www.microethology.net/the-machine-wants-to-play/) - [Crete 3/3: Bronze Age robot](https://www.microethology.net/crete-3-3-bronze-age-robot/) - [Crete 2/3: ox machine](https://www.microethology.net/crete-2-2-ox-machine/) - [Crete 1/3: the twin timeline of the rattle](https://www.microethology.net/the-twin-timeline-of-the-rattle/) - [toy animals](https://www.microethology.net/toy-animals/) - [technology and play](https://www.microethology.net/technology-and-play/) - [models and plans](https://www.microethology.net/models-and-plans/) - [re-imagining the gallery with AI](https://www.microethology.net/re-imagining-the-gallery-with-ai/) - [Toy Theory - update](https://www.microethology.net/toy-theory-update/) - [robot zoo SOTSEF](https://www.microethology.net/robot-zoo-sotsef/) - [A Toy Theory of Drawing](https://www.microethology.net/a-toy-theory-of-drawing/) - [postdigital playgrounds](https://www.microethology.net/postdigital-playgrounds/) - [toy economics](https://www.microethology.net/toy-economics/) - [PhD as play workshop](https://www.microethology.net/phd-as-play-workshop/) - [robot ludologists](https://www.microethology.net/robot-ludologists/) - [Unbox: Cardboard Cinema](https://www.microethology.net/unbox-cardboard-cinema/) - [AI has always been a toy](https://www.microethology.net/ai-has-always-been-a-toy/) - Article arguing that AI is rooted in toys and games. Extract from Giddings 2023 Toy Theory. - [small thoughts on AI & smart design](https://www.microethology.net/small-thoughts-on-ai-smart-design/) - [Mr Happy](https://www.microethology.net/mr-happy/) - [Building a creative AI Lab](https://www.microethology.net/building-a-creative-ai-lab/) - [transmedia toyetics](https://www.microethology.net/transmedia-toyetics/) - [touch toyetics](https://www.microethology.net/touch-toyetics/) - [videophilia](https://www.microethology.net/videophilia/) - [redefining the toyetic](https://www.microethology.net/redefining-the-toyetic/) - [industrial creativity](https://www.microethology.net/1620-2/) - [analogue ai animal activity](https://www.microethology.net/analogue-ai-animal-activity/) - [artificial animals games intelligence](https://www.microethology.net/artificial-animal-intelligence/) - [toying with the singularity](https://www.microethology.net/toying-with-the-singularity-2/) - studying the design and testing of a robotic gaming platform, materiality and imagination in the Internet of Toys - [chatbots in the gallery](https://www.microethology.net/chatbots-in-the-gallery/) - Creative AI art - [Surviving the Singularity](https://www.microethology.net/surviving-the-singularity/) - [robot zoo](https://www.microethology.net/robot-zoo/) - [Animal Crossing economics](https://www.microethology.net/animal-crossing-economics/) - [protopolitics of play](https://www.microethology.net/protopolitics-of-play/) - [the city is already a playground](https://www.microethology.net/the-city-is-already-a-playground/) - [a new thread](https://www.microethology.net/a-new-thread/) - [ethno-video](https://www.microethology.net/ethno-video/) - [Toy Theory](https://www.microethology.net/toy-theory-2/) - Toy Theory book on toys and technology Seth Giddings MIT Press postdigital postnatural game studies new materialism imagination play materiality - [toy cinema](https://www.microethology.net/1538-2/) - [the game economy](https://www.microethology.net/the-game-economy/) - [economic imaginary](https://www.microethology.net/economic-imaginary/) - [ethology of AI](https://www.microethology.net/ethology-of-ai/) - [not not animals](https://www.microethology.net/not-not-animals/) - [postindustrial playground](https://www.microethology.net/postindustrial-playground/) - [Sim You Later](https://www.microethology.net/sim-you-later/) - [simulation games](https://www.microethology.net/simulation-games/) - [permeable realities](https://www.microethology.net/permeable-realities/) - [at play in the flocking routine](https://www.microethology.net/at-play-in-the-flocking-routine/) - [at play in the flocking routine 2](https://www.microethology.net/at-play-in-the-flocking-routine-2/) - [soft worlds](https://www.microethology.net/soft-worlds/) - [robots are go](https://www.microethology.net/robots-are-go/) - [small steps to an ethology of mind and media](https://www.microethology.net/small-steps/) - [robot phenomenology](https://www.microethology.net/robot-phenomenology/) - [distributed imagination](https://www.microethology.net/distributed-imagination/) - [Ludic Economies I](https://www.microethology.net/ludic-economies-i/) - [the semio-economics of Hyrule](https://www.microethology.net/the-semio-economics-of-hyrule/) - [toying with the singularity](https://www.microethology.net/toying-with-the-singularity/) - [we both know your yearnings](https://www.microethology.net/we-both-know-your-yearnings/) - [robots for everyone](https://www.microethology.net/robots-for-everyone/) - [AI & the achievement of animals](https://www.microethology.net/the-achievement-of-animals/) - presentation by Seth Giddings on critical posthumanism, synthetic animals and videogame play - [AI and games](https://www.microethology.net/ai-and-games/) - [AI and the future of play](https://www.microethology.net/ai-and-the-future-of-play/) - [Animal Crossing and utopia in a time of crisis](https://www.microethology.net/animal-crossing-and-utopia-in-a-time-of-crisis/) - [Augmented Dance](https://www.microethology.net/augmented-dance/) - [unbreakable pocket cinema](https://www.microethology.net/unbreakable-pocket-cinema/) - [Unbox: The speed and slowness of Lucy, Batman, Batman, Gandalf, and Dumbledore](https://www.microethology.net/unbox-the-speed-and-slowness-of-lucy-batman-batman-gandalf-and-dumbledore/) - [game | death | worlds](https://www.microethology.net/game-death-worlds/) - [toy-being](https://www.microethology.net/toy-being/) - [one or several artificial wolves](https://www.microethology.net/1456-2/) - [an imaginary system](https://www.microethology.net/an-imaginary-system/) - [the history of games is the history of technology](https://www.microethology.net/the-history-of-games-is-the-history-of-technology/) - Seth Giddings, ROMchip journal, games and technology - [the office as medium (rough draft)](https://www.microethology.net/the-office-as-medium-rough-draft/) - [hand-held cinema](https://www.microethology.net/hand-held-cinema/) - [Phantasmagoria & technicity](https://www.microethology.net/phantasmagoria-technicity/) - [paracosmic](https://www.microethology.net/paracosmic/) - [domestic media archaeology](https://www.microethology.net/domestic-media-archaeology/) - [toy theory](https://www.microethology.net/toy-theory/) - [toying with the archive](https://www.microethology.net/toying-with-the-archive/) - [media archaeology of / through toys](https://www.microethology.net/media-archaeology-of-through-toys/) - [moments of voluptuous release](https://www.microethology.net/moments-of-voluptuous-release/) - [ethology (notes for a picture essay)](https://www.microethology.net/ethology-notes-for-a-picture-essay/) - [Leia in the expanded field](https://www.microethology.net/leia-in-the-expanded-field/) - [accursed play](https://www.microethology.net/accursed-play/) - [smARtmurals](https://www.microethology.net/smartmurals/) - [why so Serious(tm)? playing with LEGO Serious Play](https://www.microethology.net/why-so-serioustm/) - [game tokens](https://www.microethology.net/game-tokens/) - [the hybrid realities of Pokémon (before Pokémon Go)](https://www.microethology.net/the-hybrid-realities-of-pokemon-before-pokemon-go/) - [Pokémon as new mass media](https://www.microethology.net/pokemon-as-new-mass-media/) - [SimKnowledge](https://www.microethology.net/simknowledge/) - [on not re-inventing Centrifugal Bumble-Puppy](https://www.microethology.net/on-not-re-inventing-centrifugal-bumble-puppy/) - [Monsters, mini-games, and Mr Happy](https://www.microethology.net/monsters-mini-games-and-mr-happy/) - [Lego Riot](https://www.microethology.net/lego-riot/) - [toyworlds](https://www.microethology.net/toyworlds/) - [ludic economies](https://www.microethology.net/ludic-economies/) - [talking about the playful future](https://www.microethology.net/talking-about-the-playful-future/) - [digital ideas workshop...](https://www.microethology.net/digital-ideas-workshop/) - [After VR: the archaeology and potential of immersive media](https://www.microethology.net/after-vr-the-archaeology-and-potential-of-immersive-media/) - [After VR... introductory thoughts](https://www.microethology.net/after-vr-introductory-thoughts/) - [transforming creativity](https://www.microethology.net/transforming-creativity/) - [future of toys... network ideas](https://www.microethology.net/future-of-toys-bid/) - [another fine mess](https://www.microethology.net/another-fine-mess/) - [draft Configuring the dancer: intro](https://www.microethology.net/draft-configuring-the-dancer-intro/) - [draft Configuring the Dancer: the research](https://www.microethology.net/draft-configuring-the-dancer-the-research/) - [draft Configuring the Dancer: engineering the future dance](https://www.microethology.net/draft-configuring-the-dancer-engineering-the-future-dance/) - [new media... form not content](https://www.microethology.net/new-media-form-not-content/) - [configuration for the mobile era](https://www.microethology.net/configuration-for-the-mobile-era/) - [Gameworlds in sight...](https://www.microethology.net/gameworlds-in-sight/) - [towards the phenomenology of Angry Birds](https://www.microethology.net/towards-the-phenomenology-of-angry-birds/) - [DanceTag at the AHRC Creative Economy Showcase](https://www.microethology.net/dancetag-at-the-ahrc-creative-economy-showcase/) - [AHRC Creative Economy Showcase](https://www.microethology.net/ahrc-creative-economy-showcase/) - [DanceTag at the AHRC Creative Economy Showcase](https://www.microethology.net/dancetag-at-the-ahrc-creative-economy-showcase-2/) - [DanceTag on the AHRC home page...](https://www.microethology.net/dancetag-on-the-ahrc-home-page/) - [swing test](https://www.microethology.net/swing-test/) - [Play Sandbox showcase](https://www.microethology.net/play-sandbox-showcase/) - [what is the state of play? the work of the Opies in the postdigital era](https://www.microethology.net/what-is-the-state-of-play-the-work-of-the-opies-in-the-postdigital-era/) - [DanceTag report](https://www.microethology.net/dancetag-report/) - [DiGRA 2015: the past and future of players](https://www.microethology.net/the-past-and-future-of-players/) - [Lightbug video](https://www.microethology.net/lightbug-video/) - [gesture, technology and play](https://www.microethology.net/gesture-technology-and-play/) - [the pervasive medium is the pervasive message](https://www.microethology.net/the-pervasive-medium-is-the-pervasive-message/) - [you could vibrato it](https://www.microethology.net/you-could-vibrato-it/) - [sensory ethnography](https://www.microethology.net/sensory-ethnography/) - [global media mo(ve)ment](https://www.microethology.net/global-media-movement/) - [pythiatechnics](https://www.microethology.net/pythiatechnics/) - [design and the black box](https://www.microethology.net/design-and-the-black-box/) - [Lightbug at The Rooms](https://www.microethology.net/lightbug-at-the-rooms/) - [rooftops and birds](https://www.microethology.net/720/) - [gesture, play, and video](https://www.microethology.net/gesture-play-and-video/) - [AHRC Creative Economy Showcase Event](https://www.microethology.net/ahrc-creative-economy-showcase-event/) - [Orangujam](https://www.microethology.net/orangujam/) - [the app becomes its relationship with the dancer](https://www.microethology.net/the-app-becomes-its-relationship-with-the-dancer/) - [STS upgrade](https://www.microethology.net/sts-upgrade/) - [screenshots](https://www.microethology.net/screenshots/) - [AHRC video / podcast](https://www.microethology.net/ahrc-video-podcast/) - [screaming, shouting YES!!!](https://www.microethology.net/screaming-shouting-yes/) - [drawing board](https://www.microethology.net/drawing-board/) - [Harlem Shake, gangnam & planking](https://www.microethology.net/457/) - [dancing... and waiting...](https://www.microethology.net/dancing-and-waiting/) - [Pokémon Go as distributed imagination](https://www.microethology.net/pokemon-go-as-distributed-imagination/) - [please don't touch the butterflies](https://www.microethology.net/please-dont-touch-the-butterflies/) - [drawing without light](https://www.microethology.net/drawing-without-light/) - [dancing with technology](https://www.microethology.net/dancing-with-technology/) - [actualite as (machine) ethnography](https://www.microethology.net/264/) - [gender gamified](https://www.microethology.net/240/) - [DanceTag in the wild](https://www.microethology.net/dancetag-in-the-wild/) - [hybrid ontology of mobile gaming](https://www.microethology.net/hybrid-ontology-of-mobile-gaming/) - [Nesta R&D Digital Fund: DanceTag project](https://www.microethology.net/nesta-rd-digital-fund-dancetag-project/) - [researching the dancers](https://www.microethology.net/researching-the-dancers/) - [Configuring the dancer](https://www.microethology.net/configuring-the-dancer/) - [NESTA Digital R&D bid success](https://www.microethology.net/nesta-digital-rd-bid-success/) - [Deleuze and ethology](https://www.microethology.net/133/) - [Connecting the Dots...](https://www.microethology.net/connecting-the-dots/) - [The Reality of Imagination ](https://www.microethology.net/the-reality-of-imagination/) - [Complex](https://www.microethology.net/complex/) - [McLuhan, media, massage](https://www.microethology.net/mcluhan/) - [prosthetic imagination, augmented memory](https://www.microethology.net/prosthetic-prosthetic-imagination/) - [the imaginative turn I](https://www.microethology.net/media-theory-in-transitio/) - [the end of toys](https://www.microethology.net/the-end-of-toys/) - [prosthetic imagination](https://www.microethology.net/prosthetic-imagination/) - 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[creative AI](https://www.microethology.net/category/artificial-intelligence/) - [left optimism](https://www.microethology.net/category/left-optimism/) ## Tags - [ALife](https://www.microethology.net/tag/alife/) - [DCRC](https://www.microethology.net/tag/dcrc/) - [play](https://www.microethology.net/tag/play/) - [simulation](https://www.microethology.net/tag/simulation/) - [software](https://www.microethology.net/tag/software/) - [technoculture](https://www.microethology.net/tag/technoculture/) - [ethnography](https://www.microethology.net/tag/ethnography/) - [ethology](https://www.microethology.net/tag/ethology/) - [media ecology](https://www.microethology.net/tag/media-ecology/) - [objects](https://www.microethology.net/tag/objects/) - [toys](https://www.microethology.net/tag/toys/) - [video](https://www.microethology.net/tag/video-2/) - [nature](https://www.microethology.net/tag/nature/) - [post-phenomenology](https://www.microethology.net/tag/post-phenomenology/) - [virtual gravity](https://www.microethology.net/tag/virtual-gravity/) - [affect](https://www.microethology.net/tag/affect/) - [attention](https://www.microethology.net/tag/attention/) - [voodoo methodology](https://www.microethology.net/tag/voodoo-methodology/) - [transduction](https://www.microethology.net/tag/transduction/) - [presentations](https://www.microethology.net/tag/presentations/) - [mobile media](https://www.microethology.net/tag/mobile-media/) - [embodiment](https://www.microethology.net/tag/embodiment/) - [gesture](https://www.microethology.net/tag/gesture/) - [kinokulture](https://www.microethology.net/tag/kinokulture/) - [knowledge](https://www.microethology.net/tag/knowledge/) - [design](https://www.microethology.net/tag/design/) - [black box](https://www.microethology.net/tag/black-box/) - [pythiatechnics](https://www.microethology.net/tag/pythiatechnics/) - [time](https://www.microethology.net/tag/time/) - [imagination](https://www.microethology.net/tag/imagination/) - [museums](https://www.microethology.net/tag/museums/) - [symbolic exchange](https://www.microethology.net/tag/symbolic-exchange/) - [ludic economies](https://www.microethology.net/tag/ludic-economies/) - [VR](https://www.microethology.net/tag/vr/) - [AR](https://www.microethology.net/tag/ar/) - [creativity](https://www.microethology.net/tag/creativity/) - [individuation](https://www.microethology.net/tag/individuation/) - [augmented reality](https://www.microethology.net/tag/augmented-reality/) - [mixed reality](https://www.microethology.net/tag/mixed-reality/) - [protopolitics](https://www.microethology.net/tag/protopolitics/) - [AI](https://www.microethology.net/tag/ai/) - [robots](https://www.microethology.net/tag/robots/)