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toying with the singularity

Posted on April 28, 2018July 2, 2020 By sethgiddings

I’ve added a draft of ‘Toying with the singularity’ to the Publications page – a chapter for The Internet of Toys: practices, affordances and the political…

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toyworlds

Posted on January 11, 2018January 11, 2018 By sethgiddings

Toys, materiality, and imagination (extracts from Gameworlds: virtual media and children’s everyday play, NY: Bloomsbury 2014).

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small steps to an ethology of mind and media

Posted on December 10, 2015July 2, 2020 By sethgiddings

Slides for my talk at the Media Theory in Transit symposium organised by Yigit Soncul and Jussi Parikka at Winchester School of Art, 24th…

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at play in the flocking routine 2

Posted on September 28, 2013July 2, 2020 By sethgiddings

From a draft version of a chapter for Michelle Henning’s forthcoming collection on Museum Media. Accompanying video is here.   Occupying the final room…

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at play in the flocking routine

Posted on September 28, 2013July 2, 2020 By sethgiddings

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…

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permeable realities

Posted on April 17, 2013July 2, 2020 By sethgiddings

    Video here. Current developments in mobile and locative media, and in augmented / mixed reality media (for instance at the Pervasive Media Studio…

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McLuhan, media, massage

Posted on August 2, 2012October 11, 2016 By admin

Contributed to a day of screenings and seminars recently at the Watershed celebrating Marshall McLuhan’s centenary. Here’s the blurb for the panel I was…

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Sim You Later

Posted on August 2, 2012July 2, 2020 By admin

A moment from play with the BBC simulated creature software Bamzooki.

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