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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
The poetics of the oppressed
“The poetics of the oppressed is essentially the poetics of liberation: the spectator no longer delegates power to the characters either to think or to act in his place. The spectator frees himself; he thinks and acts for himself! Theatre … Continue reading
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Tagged augusto boal, liberation, spectacle, theatre
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Conditions of closely choreographed banality
“Let’s step back for a moment—or rather, float upward a bit, and imagine a bird’s-eye view of this society, one in which harried workers are sent to and fro by way of commands conveyed to them through personal computing devices. … Continue reading
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Tagged banality, crowdsourcing, ubicomp
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Such final and general DoomsDays
“In this great Celestial Creation, the Catastrophy of a World, such as ours, or even the total Dissolution of a System of Worlds, may possibly be no more to the great Author of Nature, than the most common Accident in … Continue reading
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Tagged doomsday, galaxies, mortality, the universe, thomas wright
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Mysterious marks on a trash bin outside CVS
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Artistic expression is not mere externalization of energies
“Artistic expression is not mere externalization of energies, but the existential reconstruction of a situation.” – Phillip D. Deen, Interactivity, Inhabitation, and Pragmatist Aesthetics
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Tagged games, john dewey, phillip been, situation
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The IndieCade Award
The IndieCade Award is a peer-to-peer award-giving game played at the IndieCade International Festival of Independent Games. Designer/game director/all-around-genius Gabe Smedresman describes the game as follows: The Indiecade Award is a recognition that festival attendees can award to each other … Continue reading
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Tagged acrylic cubes, awards, gabe smedresman, gifting, indiecade, indiecade award, laser cutting, mattie brice
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Any author is a collective author
“I think that Luther Blissett was an experiment in practical philosophy. Luther faced the belief in the Author as an individual genius with telling a moral fable on how creativity really works. We believe that any author is a collective … Continue reading
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Tagged authorship, luther blissett, wu ming
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The light of consciousness
“It’s funny. Not everyone loves humanity. Either explicitly or implicitly, some people seem to think that humans are a blight on the Earth’s surface. They say things like, ‘Nature is so wonderful; things are always better in the countryside where … Continue reading
Beyond the time and place of interaction
“Many crucial facts lie beyond the time and place of interaction or lie concealed within it.” – Erving Goffman, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
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Tagged erving goffman, games, interaction, magic circle, psychology
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Realizing the yarn belongs to her
Realizing the yarn belongs to her Continue reading