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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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New cards from Reality 2012
The second season of Reality Ends Here launched last week. In addition to numerous new play mechanics and tweaks, we’ve also created dozens of new game cards for players to use to generate creative prompts. Here are a few of … Continue reading
“Art is not the most precious manifestation of life. Art has not the celestial and universal value…”
“Art is not the most precious manifestation of life. Art has not the celestial and universal value that people like to attribute to it. Life is far more interesting.” – Tristan Tzara. “Lecture on Dada” (1922)
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“The video game remains an icon of its age, an emblem for the interpellation of ideological…”
“The video game remains an icon of its age, an emblem for the interpellation of ideological subjectivity, and a tool which continues (through its counter-claims of interactivity) ably to fulfil that function on behalf of capital, military and state. The … Continue reading
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“We might therefore add a third category to Roland Barthes’s classification of scriptible and…”
“We might therefore add a third category to Roland Barthes’s classification of scriptible and lisible texts: the faux-scriptible text which proclaims its openness to interactivity, which gives its user the illusion of meaning, power and active participation, and which, in … Continue reading
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Sam Lavigne on designing real-world games that “open up new possibilities [and] new ways of interacting with the world and each other”
Sam Lavigne is the co-founder (with Ian Kizu-Blair) of Situate, a design and consulting studio that produces “games that inspire people to create, explore and connect online and in the real world.” Continue reading
“What we have in academia, in other words, is a microcosm of the American economy as a whole: a…”
“What we have in academia, in other words, is a microcosm of the American economy as a whole: a self-enriching aristocracy, a swelling and increasingly immiserated proletariat, and a shrinking middle class. The same devil’s bargain stabilizes the system: the … Continue reading
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Reality Ends Here 2011 Condensed Presentation
Reality Ends Here TMB Presentation from Jeff Watson This is the quick-and-dirty presentation for the 2011 version of Reality Ends Here. Versions of this presentation were delivered at the 2012 Game Developers Conference, the 2012 Digital Media and Learning Conference, … Continue reading
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“Text of pleasure: the text that contents, fills, grants euphoria; the text that comes from culture…”
“Text of pleasure: the text that contents, fills, grants euphoria; the text that comes from culture and does not break with it, is linked to a comfortable practice of reading. Text of bliss: the text that imposes a state of … Continue reading
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“[Capital] puts play in quarantine, isolates it in a special ward, as if it wanted to stop it…”
“[Capital] puts play in quarantine, isolates it in a special ward, as if it wanted to stop it infecting other human activities. Art is this privileged and despised area set apart from commerce. And it will stay that way until … Continue reading
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Pathway near the Greek
Pathway near the Greek Continue reading