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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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toy theory

Posted on June 8, 2018 By sethgiddings

Book proposal: Toy Theory: the material and the imaginary in postdigital play. Watch this space.

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mutoscope

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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media archaeology of / through toys

Posted on May 14, 2018 By sethgiddings
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Leia in the expanded field

Posted on May 1, 2018 By sethgiddings
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we both know your yearnings

Posted on April 30, 2018July 2, 2020 By sethgiddings

I know who I am, but who are we? Distributed subjectivity in the postindustrial machinic phylum. The card is delivered to me from a…

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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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why so Serious(tm)? playing with LEGO Serious Play

Posted on February 10, 2018February 10, 2018 By sethgiddings

edited excerpt from Ashton and Giddings 2018, At work in the toy box: bedrooms, playgrounds and theories of play in creative cultural work International Journal of…

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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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future of toys… network ideas

Posted on March 30, 2017November 20, 2017 By sethgiddings

The central theme of the proposed activity is the future of toys in a digital media culture. Taking recent developments in ‘hybrid’ toy and…

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game tokens

Posted on November 16, 2016January 11, 2018 By sethgiddings

  Drawing after a photograph in a New Scientist article about the archaeological discovery in Turkey of game tokens from the early Bronze Age,…

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