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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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"I’m not saying that the games that were at Games 4 Change are bad games, nor am I suggesting that…"
“I’m not saying that the games that were at Games 4 Change are bad games, nor am I suggesting that they shouldn’t be made; I’m very much in support of their development. I’m simply suggesting that serious games should loosen … Continue reading
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Embedded papercraft objects are better than embedded digital objects
Responsibility has yet to be claimed for the beautiful papercraft sculptures that have mysteriously popped up in Scottish libraries and arts centers, each accompanied by notecards featuring the Twitter handles of relevant authorities or personalities. Tangible artifacts like these have … Continue reading
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Tagged augmented reality, books, locative media, papercraft, scotland
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Trip to the DMV = long overdue
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"The shortcoming with them, of course, is that, among many other things, they don’t talk about punk…"
“The shortcoming with them, of course, is that, among many other things, they don’t talk about punk rock or genre film. They talk about the contemporary art world, which to me is a corpse of a whole bourgeois European high-art … Continue reading
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Inscrutability and data visualization: the lost language of the khipu
While it has long been understood that the Inca khipu was an advanced thread/cord-based numerical accounting system, there are tantalizing shreds of evidence suggesting that it was much more — a singular kind of writing, capable of containing myth and … Continue reading
Posting Anonymously: The Talking Statues of Rome
Anonymity affords a kind of honesty and directness that isn’t always possible when people know who’s doing the talking. It’s important to find ways to break free of the tyranny of our real identities. For me, privacy is only a … Continue reading
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