During periods of relative stability, popular entertainment and information media forms tend to be studied as conduits of stories, ideas, images, jokes, dramas. The…
Orangujam
An enchanting talk by Hanna Wirman at the Bristol Games Hub yesterday. Every time I hear Hanna speak of her research designing games for…
drawing without light
Just published, a new version of Martin Lister (ed.) The Photographic Image in Digital Culture, London: Routledge. I have an essay in it on…
dancing with technology
Dancing with Technology: Mobile Pie’s Richard Wilson talks about DanceTag How game developers and a dance agency are collaborating on a playful app to…
actualite as (machine) ethnography
Cinema of attractions as de facto ethnographic film… the actualities captured royalty, children, native cultures, everyday life, urban panoramas. The cinema provided its own…
gender gamified
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…
DanceTag in the wild
A moment from a playtesting / publicity event for the Dancetag project as part of the Digital Festival in Brighton. A group of women…
hybrid ontology of mobile gaming
‘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…
Nesta R&D Digital Fund: DanceTag project
More on this new project soon, and plenty of posts to follow. I’ll write up a clearer outline of what we’re doing, but here’s…
at play in the flocking routine 2
From a draft version of a chapter for Michelle Henning’s forthcoming collection on Museum Media. Accompanying video is here. Occupying the final room…
at play in the flocking routine
A few lo-res seconds of an interactive video installation at the Wildwalk science centre in Bristol (closed in 2007). The fish move and respond…