Berkeley Talk: Transforming Community Through Pervasive Play
I will be speaking at the Berkeley Center for New Media on February 2nd, 2012, at 5PM in the BCNM Commons (340 Moffitt).…
Innovation Ecotones
An ecotone — literally, a place where ecologies are in tension — is a transitional area between…
Jeff Hull on The Games of Nonchalance: a guerrilla street war against banality and routine
In the Games of Nonchalance, participants experience a vast transmedia interactive narrative woven into the fabric of the Bay Area, following threads of story and mystery through city streets and a wide array of on- and offline media artifacts. I caught up with Jeff Hull shortly after his appearance at IndieCade.
Transforming space with play: an interview with David Fono of Atmosphere Industries
Atmosphere Industries is a Toronto-based cross-media design collective whose projects “combine…
Atmosphere Industries
Atmosphere Industries is a Toronto-based collective that creates award-winning cross-media games. They…
Calling for Kids Aged 6-10 to Help Make a Game
Posted 2 September 2011 | 9:52 pm
Gaming Privacy (or, Privacy: The Game! For Ages 8 and Up)
Posted 28 June 2011 | 7:44 pm
Gentrification: The Game! selected for TIFF’s Future Games
Posted 11 March 2011 | 8:55 pm
Backblog: Come Out & Play Report
Posted 3 November 2010 | 1:49 am
Want to build your celeb-stalking skills? Come play Paparazzi in LA!
Posted 6 October 2010 | 1:57 am
Another City for Another Life: the unforeseen games of the city of the future
ARGs, pervasive games, and location-based social games echo and reiterate a range of earlier experiments in ambient and locative art. Graffiti, sticker art, mail art, and other kinds of analog methods for creating distributed narratives paved the way for the kinds of practices that are today exploding in number and purpose thanks to ubiquitous computing and the real-time web. Lettrism and Situationism redefined urban space as a canvas for experimentation, play, and collaborative production.
Trap doors and hatches all around: Jeff Hull on infusing variability and play into the workaday world
Nonchalance’s practice stands at the intersection of three core concepts: Narrative, Consciousness, and Space (both public and private). Founded in Oakland in 1999 by director Jeff Hull, the organization’s primary goal is to infuse more variability and play into the civic realm.