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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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Syllabus: Documentary and Activist Games (CTIN-499)
Filmmaker John Grierson famously described documentary cinema as “the creative treatment of actuality.” Documentary films can illuminate unseen processes, broaden our awareness of the past and present, and challenge us to make a better future. How might games achieve similar … Continue reading
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Syllabus: Survey of Interactive Media (CTCS-505)
The tangled relationship between theory and practice presents us with something of a chicken-and-egg problem. On the one hand, we could say that all action emerges out of theory: we observe the world, generate various hypotheses about how things might … Continue reading
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Tagged ctcs-505, game studies, games, graduate, imgd, interactive, praxis, sca, theory, theory-practice, usc
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Syllabus: Introduction to Interactive Entertainment (CTIN-190)
The rapid rise in the power and accessibility of digital technology has made possible myriad new forms of entertainment, artistic expression, and socio-political engagement. Among these new forms, videogames and other kinds of interactive entertainment offer artists and designers unprecedented … Continue reading
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Tagged ctin-190, entertainment, game studies, games, imgd, interactive, sca, undergraduate, usc
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