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Arthur C. Clarke: 1917-2008

Video of Clarke’s “90th Birthday Reflections,” recorded in December, 2007.…

Individuality

A fun little Java applet that allows you to play around in isometric space. Runs in your browser here.…

Love: Procedural MMO

The idea of procedurally-generated MMOs has appealed to me for a while. I’ve tried to imagine what such…

Flickrvision

Flickrvision shows realtime, geolocated Flickr photos. Just like Twittervision, it’s hypnotic to…

C3: 10 Key Concepts

Sam Ford has helpfully put together a list of ten key concepts that have been articulated in various forms on…

Adventures in Self Distribution

PTTP is a gathering of filmmakers, technologists, and media creators that takes place multiple times a year…

Counter-Point

This project remaps the combat sounds triggered during gameplay in Counter-Strike: Source, producing a peaceful, collaboratively-created soundscape.

Players Make Play For Nothing

An insightful post by David Fono about community-based content generation in ARGs and MMOs:
A couple of posts…

Crucial Juncture for Blue Brain

The Blue Brain project is now at a crucial juncture. The first phase of the project—”the feasibility…

ALAVs

Blubber Bots are floating DIY robotic species that navigate autonomously and intelligently. Blubber Bots…

New York City Waterfalls

“In developing the New York City Waterfalls, I have tried to work with today’s complex notion…

Death of a column, birth of a movement

Two years ago, I wrote my first column celebrating the best indie games: small, offbeat titles, programmed…

Universal Connections

what is the difference between analogue and digital, physical and virtual? what connects and bridges these…

Ground-Up City

Ground-up City. Play as a Design Tool maps the continuing history of an urban design strategy for play in the…

Interesting Responses Abound

…from writers such as Clay Shirky, Jane McGonigal and Imogen Heap, courtesy Zefrank:
I sent the following…

Constellation

An abstract casual video game exploring physics and probability.

Mentality

Mentality is a 3D knowledge-mapping system that uses social media metadata to procedurally generate information-rich virtual environments.

Hans Rosling: Things are changing

In a follow-up to his now-legendary TED2006 presentation, Hans Rosling demonstrates how developing countries…

Narrative, Play and Social Space

A brief statement describing my academic research and development objectives at the commencement of my PhD.

Christy’s Corner of the Universe


Christy Dena specializes in the design and execution of trans/cross-media projects.…

Traveling again! Off to Sweden and LA :D
Posted 26 March 2012 | 12:06 am

New Publication: Hand Made High Tech
Posted 9 January 2012 | 12:51 am

Damn, this is what plagiarism looks like.
Posted 11 November 2011 | 9:33 pm

2011 World Tour: Sweden, The Netherlands, Canada & USA :)
Posted 19 September 2011 | 7:02 am

CFP: Crossmedia Innovations: Texts, Markets, Institutions, Education
Posted 6 September 2011 | 4:22 am

IA: Web Trend Map 2008

We present you with the 2008 Web Trend Map, in all its beautiful beta glory. This time we’ve taken almost 300…

HBR Breakthrough Ideas for 2008: ARG

From the Harvard Business Review’s list of Breakthrough Ideas for 2008:
In the coming decade, many businesses…

Mariko Takahashi’s Fitness Video

This is a mesmerizing and frightening video. It’s a word-for-word parody of Susan Powter’s first…

We Make Money Not Art


We visit art galleries, listen to conferences, cover art and design events, take a lot of pictures, interview…

Subversion in the Arab Art world
Posted 22 May 2012 | 7:53 am

#A.I.L - artists in laboratories
Posted 21 May 2012 | 7:26 am

An Ant Ballet at FutureEverything
Posted 17 May 2012 | 10:05 pm

Sony World Photography Awards 2012
Posted 13 May 2012 | 8:59 am

My Name Is Janez Janša
Posted 9 May 2012 | 7:16 pm

Visualizing: Tracing an Aesthetic

Jose Luis gave such a great talk about the subject last year that i’ve spent some time translating bits…

Reprap: The self-replicating replicator

RepRap will make plastic, ceramic, or metal parts, and is itself made from plastic parts, so it will be able to…

BLDGBLOG


Architectural conjecture, urban speculation, and landscape futures by Geoff Manaugh.…

Vitamin C and Aloe
Posted 21 May 2012 | 8:14 pm

Under Angeles
Posted 21 May 2012 | 3:26 am

Astrobiology and Drowned Nations
Posted 18 May 2012 | 3:15 pm

SubBrit
Posted 18 May 2012 | 3:12 pm

Perhaps it is not a city
Posted 18 May 2012 | 2:13 pm