About
Jeff Watson is an artist, designer, and Assistant Professor of Interactive Media and Games at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts.
-
Category Archives: Quotes
You are in charge of your destiny
“A Pepsi commercial on MTV promoting the 1998 MTV music video awards emphasized the fact that the video of the year award would be selected by the viewers through Internet and phone calls live during the show; the commercial dramatized … Continue reading
Posted in Quotes
Comments Off on You are in charge of your destiny
Hard working children
“All the snapping and posting of photos, liking, commenting, linking, and clicking is happening without any compensation for this sweat. No wonder Zukerberg’s personal net worth is 34 billion. Youtube is saturated with videos of young people — many in their teens — testing … Continue reading
Turn off the options, and turn up the intimacy
“Although designers continue to dream of “transparency” – technologies that just do their job without making their presence felt – both creators and audiences actually like technologies with “personality.” A personality is something with which you can have a relationship. … Continue reading
Making process visible
“I saw scores as a way of describing all such processes in all the arts, of marking process visible and thereby designing with process through scores. I saw scores also as a way of communicating these processes over time and … Continue reading
Posted in Quotes
Tagged architecture, lawrence halprin, participation, process architecture, process design, rsvp cycles, scores
Comments Off on Making process visible
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
Posted in Quotes
Tagged augusto boal, liberation, spectacle, theatre
Comments Off on The poetics of the oppressed
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
Posted in Quotes
Tagged banality, crowdsourcing, ubicomp
Comments Off on Conditions of closely choreographed banality
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
Posted in Quotes
Tagged doomsday, galaxies, mortality, the universe, thomas wright
Comments Off on Such final and general DoomsDays
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
Posted in Quotes
Tagged games, john dewey, phillip been, situation
Comments Off on Artistic expression is not mere externalization of energies
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
Posted in Quotes
Tagged authorship, luther blissett, wu ming
Comments Off on Any author is a collective author
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