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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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Category Archives: Blog
Understanding the future through a counterfactual past: The Golden Institute
Sascha Pohlflepp’s The Golden Institute is a great example of how artists can build elaborate and penetrating critiques through the creation of a system of interrelated media artifacts. Continue reading
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Tagged alternate history, arg, design fiction, jimmy carter, sascha pohflepp, the golden institute, transmdia
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Money in a sharing economy
“Money in a sharing economy is not just inappropriate; it is poisonous.” Lawrence Lessig, Remix (119)
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What I’m seeing at SXSWi
I’ll be at SXSWi from Friday, March 12th until Monday, March 15th. Here’s what I’m thinking of checking out while I’m there. Continue reading
A Small Town Anywhere
Performance art groups like Coney are exploring the generative and poetic potentials of games in much the same way that game designers are exploring the immersive and interactive affordances of performance. Continue reading
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Tagged battersea arts center, coney, games, improvisation, participation, performance, uk
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Try to remain invisible: Subtlemob
Duncan Speakman’s As if it were for the last time is a soundwalk and street performance wherein audiences are “invited to download an MP3 and turn up at a secret location to listen to the track at a specified time.” Continue reading
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Tagged ambient storytelling, duncan speakman, improvisation, locative media, participation, performance, soundwalks, subtlemob, uk, urban space
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ARG readings and reflections: an annotated bibliography
This resource contains links to blog posts, conference papers, journal articles, and other texts related to alternate reality gaming. Continue reading
ARGs in institutions: museums, libraries, schools, and beyond
This resource contains examples of alternate reality games (ARGs) created for museums, libraries, schools, and government agencies. Also included are links to related resources, designers, observers, and policy-makers. Continue reading
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Tagged arg, education, experience-design, libraries, museums, new media literacies, schools
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Hand from Above
Hand From Above encourages us to question our normal routine when we often find ourselves rushing from one destination to another. Inspired by Land of the Giants and Goliath, we are reminded of mythical stories by mischievously unleashing a giant hand from the BBC Big Screen. Passers by will be playfully transformed. What if humans weren’t on top of the food chain? Continue reading
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Tagged bbc, chris o'shea, interactive video, liverpool, public space, screens, video
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RSS subscribers: do not adjust your set
Anyone using an RSS reader to access the content on this site may have noticed a sudden flood of micro-posts (about 20 of them) on Thursday, February 11th. The reason this happened is because I have started to use a great plugin called FeedWordpress to aggregate all my tweets from Twitter. Continue reading
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Tagged aggregation, announcements, feedwordpress, search, wordpress
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Content management and delivery tools for indie ARG producers
By using and mashing-up freely-available social media, mobile technology, and web publishing tools, ARG producers with shoestring budgets can roll their own custom ARG management and delivery systems. Continue reading