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Toy Theory

Posted on March 3, 2021March 16, 2021 By sethgiddings

My book, Toy Theory, will be published by MIT Press in 2023. Here’s a section of the proposal: Headline Rethinking culture, media, technology and the…

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toy cinema

Posted on November 23, 2020November 23, 2020 By sethgiddings

Video of a short lecture on precinematic and postcinematic toys for Estrella Sendra’s SOAS module ‘Introduction to Film Language, History and Theory’ October 2020  

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toying with the singularity

Posted on August 2, 2019February 8, 2022 By sethgiddings

My chapter on the design of playful AI and robotics – and the relationships between the material, the technical and the imaginary – is…

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unbreakable pocket cinema

Posted on November 16, 2018July 2, 2020 By sethgiddings

Stip Vuwers, Bill Douglas Cinema Museum, University of Exeter

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hand-held cinema

Posted on October 12, 2018April 23, 2019 By sethgiddings

The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum has uploaded my report on this archive research: Handheld cinema, or the other successful toys that move.

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toying with the archive

Posted on May 15, 2018May 15, 2018 By sethgiddings

I’ve just been awarded a research stipend by the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum at the University of Exeter. Here’s the rationale: My interest in…

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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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gesture, play, and video

Posted on August 6, 2015October 26, 2016 By sethgiddings

  gesture from Seth Giddings on Vimeo.

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gesture, technology and play

Posted on August 6, 2015October 26, 2016 By sethgiddings

This is the website for a symposium organised by Helen W Kennedy, Patrick Crogan and myself at the Pervasive Media Studio in Bristol in…

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on not re-inventing Centrifugal Bumble-Puppy

Posted on June 9, 2015January 11, 2018 By sethgiddings

Outside, in the garden, it was playtime. Naked in the warm June sunshine, six or seven hundred little boys and girls were running with…

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actualite as (machine) ethnography

Posted on October 11, 2013October 11, 2016 By sethgiddings

Cinema of attractions as de facto ethnographic film… the actualities captured royalty, children, native cultures, everyday life, urban panoramas. The cinema provided its own…

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