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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 2010
"Our epoch is one in which space takes for us the form of relations among sites."
“Our epoch is one in which space takes for us the form of relations among sites.” – Michel Foucault, Of Other Spaces (1967), Heterotopias
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"Brothels and colonies are two extreme types of heterotopia, and if we think, after all, that the…"
“Brothels and colonies are two extreme types of heterotopia, and if we think, after all, that the boat is a floating piece of space, a place without a place, that exists by itself, that is closed in on itself and … Continue reading
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"It is no surprise, then, that these other forms of “creating” are becoming an increasingly dominant…"
“It is no surprise, then, that these other forms of “creating” are becoming an increasingly dominant form of “writing.” The Inter- net didn’t make these other forms of “writing” (what I will call simply “media”) significant. But the Internet and … Continue reading
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“[C]inema replaced all other modes of narration with sequential narrative, an assembly line of shots…”
“[C]inema replaced all other modes of narration with sequential narrative, an assembly line of shots that appear on the screen one at a time. For centuries, a spatialized narrative in which all images appear simultaneously dominated European visual culture; in … Continue reading
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Tagged cinema, future cinema, lev manovich, narrative, space
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Spontaneous transmedia combustion: collaborative storytelling, Cooks Source, and the Talking Dead
Online collaborative storytelling is an idea that people seem to get excited about in waves. At the peak of a given wave, designers and observers rightly express confidence that wholly new and powerful kinds of storytelling are just around the … Continue reading
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Tagged cooks source, facebook, jay bushman, the talking dead, transmedia
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“This belief that the viewer suffers from an epistemological lack…”
“This belief that the viewer suffers from an epistemological lack that will be corrected by the artist brings the orthopedic aesthetic into surprising proximity to the rhetoric of advertising, which promises viewers access to a more prestigious or enlightened social … Continue reading
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Tagged dialogic aesthetics, grant kester
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