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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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Author Archives: Jeff Watson
“Based on the discrepancies between Bill’s approach and that of other teachers, including the…”
“Based on the discrepancies between Bill’s approach and that of other teachers, including the systems principles of Tomas Maldonado, the school shifted its ideology to a more methodological and structured field of study, but one that also strongly embraced aesthetics … Continue reading
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The mysterious Glitch Lab spaceship with its creator, Anna Lotko.
The mysterious Glitch Lab spaceship with its creator, Anna Lotko. Continue reading
Just another day in the @scareality Game Office
Just another day in the @scareality Game Office Continue reading
Innovation Ecotones
An ecotone — literally, a place where ecologies are in tension — is a transitional area between different biomes, such as the boundary between grassland and forest or between different kinds of forests. Such places are sites for evolutionary dynamism, … Continue reading
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Tagged ann pendleton-jullian, dissertation, ecology, education, innovation ecotones, pervasive games, pervasive learning, transmedia
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Video: Indiecade 2011 “No Screens” Panel
Featuring Mathieu Castelli, Nathalie Pozzi, Greg Trefry, Chris Weed, and me. Moderated by Colleen Macklin. This is a free-range session about games that go beyond the confines of the polygonal frame. In other words big games, street games, args, playful … Continue reading
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Tagged chris weed, colleen macklin, dissertation, greg trefry, indiecade, mathieu castelli, nathalie pozzi, reality ends here
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Flight path.
Flight path. Continue reading
Using location data to predict where people will be, when they will be there, and who they will be there with
Never mind the increasingly ubiquitous surveillance-by-smartphone of where people are. Next up is keeping track of where they will be. University of Illinois researchers Long Vu, Quang Do, and Klara Nahrstedt have prototyped a system that analyzes the movements of … Continue reading
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Address is Approximate
Like Toy Story, but for graphic designers. Via Flowing Data.
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Tagged animation, google, stop motion, street view
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“Mathews argues that Chungking Mansions provides a fascinating insight into “low-end” globalization:…”
“Mathews argues that Chungking Mansions provides a fascinating insight into “low-end” globalization: not the slick operations of multi-national corporations, but traders schlepping goods around the world in suitcases. Most come from sub-Saharan Africa, tempted here by the cheap products made … Continue reading
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Engine 29 “pop-up arts journalism lab” pays a visit to the @scareality Game Office
Doug MacCash of the New Orleans Times-Picayune caught this footage of me talking about Reality Ends Here when he and several other brilliant Engine 29 Annenberg Fellows paid a visit to the Game Office. Also included in this video: über-player … Continue reading
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