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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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The Fakebook Generation
I’ve always thought of Facebook as online community theater. In costumes we customize in a backstage makeup room — the Edit Profile page, where we can add a few Favorite Books or touch up our About Me section — we … Continue reading
What Makes a Machinima Film "Good"?
For the sake of the argument, let’s not pull back and simply say that machinima – like every other form of art – is simply too diverse to even talk about the issue. It so happens that there are more … Continue reading
Kesselskramer
kesselskramer.com Kesselskramer is an advertising agency based in Amsterdam. Their website is not a usual advertising agency site. It is almost unusable, the navigation is non-existent and the content is impossible to find. It is my favourite website on the … Continue reading
The Boy With The Incredible Brain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z22H89rIMHk More: Wikipedia: Daniel Tammet
Looptracks
Looptracks is an interactive music video. Many websites use interactivity as a means of accessing non-interactive content. In this website the interactivity is the content. (looptracks)
Review of Bourriaud’s "Relational Aesthetics"
A thorough-going review of Bourriaud’s “Relational Aesthetics” can be found at new media : ryan peter andre tobin: Bourriaud focuses on the role of modernity in shaping the way we relate to society in contemporary times. While modernity had a … Continue reading
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The Worst Mistake
Jared Diamond: …with the advent of agriculture an elite became better off, but most people became worse off. Instead of swallowing the progressivist party line that we chose agriculture because it was good for us, we must ask how we … Continue reading
The Weather Project
Olafur Eliasson nimbly merges art, science, and natural phenomena to create extraordinary multisensory experiences. Challenging the passive nature of traditional art-viewing, he engages the observer as an active participant, using tangible elements such as temperature, moisture, aroma, and light to … Continue reading
ROBOAT
This summer we began work on the third of three autonomous entities we’ve been developing with a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation and Renew Media. It’s an “unmanned surface vehicle,” or water robot, made for protests on or near aqueous … Continue reading