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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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Tag Archives: situationism
Stirring $#!* Up With Games: Pervasive and Environmental Game Design Workshop
This workshop is intended for those who wish to explore how games can be designed to directly impact the social fabrics of lived environments such as schools, public institutions, workplaces, and neighborhoods. Continue reading
Posted in Presentations
Tagged disruption, environmental game design, meaningful play, pervasive games, situationism
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Serendipity with an edge: A chat with Benrik about Situationist App
[intro]Situationist is an iPhone app that injects surprise and serendipity into everyday life. The app uses geolocation and push notifications to alert members to each other’s proximity, then challenges them to interact in random “situations”. As the artists state on … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews
Tagged ben carey, benrik, constant nieuwenhuys, henrik dalehag, iphone, serendipity, situationism, urban space
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Jeff Hull on The Games of Nonchalance: a guerrilla street war against banality and routine
In the Games of Nonchalance, participants experience a vast transmedia interactive narrative woven into the fabric of the Bay Area, following threads of story and mystery through city streets and a wide array of on- and offline media artifacts. I caught up with Jeff Hull shortly after his appearance at IndieCade. Continue reading
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Tagged arg, bay area, jeff hull, jejune institute, nonchalance, pervasive games, public space, san francisco, situationism, street art
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“In closing, we should briefly mention some aspects of what we call ultra-détournement, that is, the…”
“In closing, we should briefly mention some aspects of what we call ultra-détournement, that is, the tendencies for détournement to operate in everyday social life. Gestures and words can be given other meanings, and have been throughout history for various … Continue reading
Posted in Quotes
Tagged detournement, guy debord, remix, situationism
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Another City for Another Life: the unforeseen games of the city of the future
ARGs, pervasive games, and location-based social games echo and reiterate a range of earlier experiments in ambient and locative art. Graffiti, sticker art, mail art, and other kinds of analog methods for creating distributed narratives paved the way for the kinds of practices that are today exploding in number and purpose thanks to ubiquitous computing and the real-time web. Lettrism and Situationism redefined urban space as a canvas for experimentation, play, and collaborative production. Continue reading
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Tagged constant nieuwenhuys, lettrism, locative media, pervasive games, situationism, urban space
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