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transmedia toyetics

Posted on February 25, 2022February 25, 2022 By sethgiddings

An MA Global Media Management workshop with Maggie Li and Megen de Bruin-Molé: incorporating toy mechanics and media into transmedia storyworlds. Here are monsters…

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animated gif of children's hands manipulating superhero action figures

touch toyetics

Posted on February 25, 2022 By sethgiddings

A toy stops being a toy when it is no longer touched the relationship between the hand and the toy [is] an example of…

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ink drawing of a data projector on a stand, image rotated 90 degrees anticlockwise

videophilia

Posted on February 19, 2022February 19, 2022 By sethgiddings

This is a really old post from a defunct blog, but one that I keep referring students to when we discuss ethnographic methods, so…

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toy figures on the dashboard of a van

redefining the toyetic

Posted on February 18, 2022February 18, 2022 By sethgiddings

Critical attention to toys demonstrates that the instrumental nature of machines and systems is less stable than generally assumed. And it shifts ontological questions…

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analogue ai animal activity

Posted on February 17, 2022 By sethgiddings

Animal AI and A-Life ideas by level 1 Games Design & Art students: non-digital modelling of social behaviour, ecosystems and resources, sensing, movement and…

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industrial creativity

Posted on February 17, 2022February 17, 2022 By sethgiddings

Lovely responses from year 2 BA Graphic Arts students to my talks on the ideologies and practicalities of industrial creativity and play. I love…

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artificial animals games intelligence

Posted on February 17, 2022February 17, 2022 By sethgiddings

A lecture for year 1 BA Games Design & Art, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton  

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Building a creative AI Lab

Posted on February 16, 2022February 25, 2022 By sethgiddings
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robot zoo

Posted on November 24, 2021November 24, 2021 By sethgiddings

Our Creative AI in the Robot Zoo room at the University of Southampton Hands-on Humanities Day, Saturday 20th November 2021. AI and robots are…

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Surviving the Singularity

Posted on October 25, 2021November 24, 2021 By sethgiddings

Please go here: http://www.microethology.net/robot-zoo/  

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chatbots in the gallery

Posted on October 11, 2021February 8, 2022 By sethgiddings

Earlier this year we ran a Web Science Institute-funded pilot project called ‘Chatbots in the Gallery.’ The project team, Dr Sarah Hayden, Samantha Schäfer,…

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a new thread

Posted on September 23, 2021 By sethgiddings

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