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Jeff Watson is an artist, designer, and Assistant Professor of Interactive Media and Games at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts.
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Monthly Archives: November 2011
Innovation Ecotones
An ecotone — literally, a place where ecologies are in tension — is a transitional area between different biomes, such as the boundary between grassland and forest or between different kinds of forests. Such places are sites for evolutionary dynamism, … Continue reading
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Tagged ann pendleton-jullian, dissertation, ecology, education, innovation ecotones, pervasive games, pervasive learning, transmedia
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Video: Indiecade 2011 “No Screens” Panel
Featuring Mathieu Castelli, Nathalie Pozzi, Greg Trefry, Chris Weed, and me. Moderated by Colleen Macklin. This is a free-range session about games that go beyond the confines of the polygonal frame. In other words big games, street games, args, playful … Continue reading
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Tagged chris weed, colleen macklin, dissertation, greg trefry, indiecade, mathieu castelli, nathalie pozzi, reality ends here
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Flight path.
Flight path. Continue reading
Using location data to predict where people will be, when they will be there, and who they will be there with
Never mind the increasingly ubiquitous surveillance-by-smartphone of where people are. Next up is keeping track of where they will be. University of Illinois researchers Long Vu, Quang Do, and Klara Nahrstedt have prototyped a system that analyzes the movements of … Continue reading
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Tagged jyotish, long vu, mobile media, prediction, surveillance
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Address is Approximate
Like Toy Story, but for graphic designers. Via Flowing Data.
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Tagged animation, google, stop motion, street view
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“Mathews argues that Chungking Mansions provides a fascinating insight into “low-end” globalization:…”
“Mathews argues that Chungking Mansions provides a fascinating insight into “low-end” globalization: not the slick operations of multi-national corporations, but traders schlepping goods around the world in suitcases. Most come from sub-Saharan Africa, tempted here by the cheap products made … Continue reading
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Engine 29 “pop-up arts journalism lab” pays a visit to the @scareality Game Office
Doug MacCash of the New Orleans Times-Picayune caught this footage of me talking about Reality Ends Here when he and several other brilliant Engine 29 Annenberg Fellows paid a visit to the Game Office. Also included in this video: über-player … Continue reading
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"I think the idea of a star developer having his or her name on the box is just subscribing to the…"
“I think the idea of a star developer having his or her name on the box is just subscribing to the same floundering cultural models that the Platform Holders and Publishers have necessarily bought into and staked their futures on. … Continue reading
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"Pictures Under Glass is an interaction paradigm of permanent numbness. It’s a Novocaine drip…"
“Pictures Under Glass is an interaction paradigm of permanent numbness. It’s a Novocaine drip to the wrist. It denies our hands what they do best. And yet, it’s the star player in every Vision Of The Future.” – Bret Victor … Continue reading
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"The ink was hardly dry on the Citizens United decision when the Chamber of Commerce organized a…"
“The ink was hardly dry on the Citizens United decision when the Chamber of Commerce organized a covertly funded front and rained cash into the 2010 campaigns. According to the Sunlight Foundation, corporate front groups spent $126 million in the fall … Continue reading
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Tagged bill moyers, elections, occupy, usa, wall street
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