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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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Category Archives: Blog
Transmedia Storytelling 101
Henry Jenkins, head of the Comparative Media Studies program at MIT and founding member of the Convergence Culture Consortium, has shared an excellent list of 10 key concepts in the theory and practice of transmedia storytelling. This is a great … Continue reading
Gold Farmers doc at LABoral
Regine at We Make Money Not Art interviews Gold Farmers director Ge Jin about his exploration of China’s underground game-labor economy: Gold farmers have the challenging task of constantly navigating between clandestinity and the need to advertise their service. i … Continue reading
Glenn Greenwald on "military analyst" story blackout
The Pentagon has posted to its website the roughly 8,000 pages and audio tapes it was forced to provide to the New York Times regarding its “military analyst” program. Anyone who reads through them, as I’ve now done, can only … Continue reading
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Late Fragment DVD Release
Daryl Cloran, Anita Doron and Mateo Guez’s interactive feature film, Late Fragment, is being featured at the Future of Cinema Salon at the Cannes Film Festival before it gets its DVD release on July 10th. You can check out a … Continue reading
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Why Nick Bostrom hopes SETI finds nothing
From Technology Review: The next decade might see a Mars Sample Return mission, which would use robotic systems to collect samples of Martian rocks, soils, and atmosphere and return them to Earth. We could then analyze the samples to see … Continue reading
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Exposure
An outstanding New Yorker article about “the woman behind the camera at Abu Ghraib,” by Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris: She liked to look. She might recoil from violence, but she was drawn to its aftermath. When others wanted to … Continue reading
New Ecology of Things
The NET publication includes essays, a glossary, forums, interactive works, and videos. Writing from Bruce Sterling, Brenda Laurel, Phil van Allen, Anne Burdick, Holly Willis, and Nik Hafermaas is joined by NET projects designed by Art Center students, friends, and … Continue reading
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AirJelly
Seeking recourse to jellyfish as a source of inspiration for powering gas-filled balloons is an obvious thought; after all, a jellyfish consists of water to 99%. Its weight-to-volume ratio is approximately 1, and the figure is similar for a gas-filled … Continue reading
Gin, Television and Social Surplus
From Clay Shirky‘s speech at the Web 2.0 Conference, April 24, 2008. In this excerpt, Shirky responds to an oft-asked question about participatory culture and “surplus cognition”: I was being interviewed by a TV producer to see whether I should … Continue reading
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Gary Settles’ Schlieren Films
Prof. Settles grew up on a farm in eastern Tennessee. His interest in fluid dynamics, optics, and experiments began in his teen years with the construction of miniature subsonic and supersonic wind tunnels, the latter of which won awards at … Continue reading
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