Games Across Media

Loser Generated Content

admin — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:34:53 +0000

“Loser Generated Content: from Participation to Exploitation” That is the title of a very cool paper by the ITU new entry Soren Mork Petersen (sorry about the spelling).
Take a look here.

Superstruct: Call to the Best Minds of Our Planet

admin — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:30:30 +0000

I might be very deluded, but I can’t help feeling filled with hope each time one of these alternate reality games about thinking up new ideas to save the world come out.

Superstruct is a “massively multiplayer forecasting game”, in which you will chronicle the world of 2019, which is actually just a few years before the end of the human race, due to come in 23 years, says Jane McGonigal. Hey, don’t smile, this is no laughing matter, you should start having panic attacks and participating in the game.

The Institute for the Future appointed as first research fellow Howard Rheingold, so you will be in good company for producing creative visionary material.

Get instructions here from September 22, 2008

Technorati Tags: alternate reality games, augmented reality

Textual Urban Decor

admin — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:20:39 +0000

Mobile projection platform in Calgary, to make the city a canvas with your text messages - actually the slogan of TXTual Healing is “Creating public performances with your text messages since ‘06″.

http://www.txtualhealing.com/

Three Lines Adaptation

admin — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:18:33 +0000

A remediation of Félix Fénéon’s Novels in Three Lines (1906) by the New York Review of Books
novelin3lines

Novels in Three Lines

By Félix Fénéon
Translated and with an introduction by Luc Sante
Novels in Three Lines collects more than a thousand items that appeared anonymously in the French newspaper Le Matin in 1906—true stories of murder, mayhem, and everyday life presented with a ruthless economy that provokes laughter even as it shocks. This extraordinary trove, undiscovered until the 1940s and here translated for the first time into English, is the work of the mysterious Félix Fénéon. Dandy, anarchist, and critic of genius, the discoverer of Georges Seurat and the first French publisher of James Joyce, Fénéon carefully maintained his own anonymity, toiling for years as an obscure clerk in the French War Department. Novels in Three Lines is his secret chef-d’oeuvre, a work of strange and singular art that brings back the long-ago year of 1906 with the haunting immediacy of a photograph while looking forward to such disparate works as Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project and the Death and Disaster series of Andy Warhol.

“Fénéon’s three-line news items, considered as a single work, represent a crucial if hitherto overlooked milestone in the history of modernism…. They are the poems and novels he never otherwise wrote, or at least did not publish or preserve. They demonstrate in miniature his epigrammatic flair, his exquisite timing, his pinpoint precision of language, his exceedingly dry humor, his calculated effrontery, his tenderness and cruelty, his contained outrage. His politics, his aesthetics, his curiosity and sympathy are all on view, albeit applied with tweezers and delineated with a single-hair brush. And they depict the France of 1906 in its full breadth, on a canvas of reduced scale but proportionate vastness. They might be considered Fénéon’s Human Comedy.” —From the Introduction by Luc Sante - New York Review of Books

(from if:book)

(in fact I somehow disagree, and find the twitter interface clogging the text, and the “web” signature somewhat of a missed opportunity. Still, it is great to experiment)

Technorati Tags: books, educational, remediation, social networks, Web 2.0

Schedule Update: Brunel

admin — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 13:16:18 +0000

Hello, as I might have posted before, earlier on this year I made a number of paper proposals, and some of them, oh yes, have been accepted. (I really need publications, you know, and also a scholarship).

Anyway, one sure enough appointment will be at the Brunel Digital Games Postgraduate Conference 2008 September 16th, which hopefully will be broadcasted in Second Life (how do you say? Life-casted? there must be a word for it). I will still be talking about Facebook Applications, and new ways of understanding play in non-play settings…

Technorati Tags: personal

Blogging

admin — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 12:58:42 +0000

Another troubled period of deadlines, so no posts…

Jill Walker’s book Blogging has been published, and “I” bought it

From the back cover:
Jill Walker’s Blogging is set to be a key text in its field. Unlike too many other books about blogging, this is no simplistic ‘Blogs 101′, but instead places blogging in a wider context from the declining supremacy of print culture to the emerging hot spots of social networking, including Facebook and YouTube. One of the world’s leading scholars on blogging, and a veteran blogger herself, Walker is uniquely placed to document and examine the impact of blogging and allied forms of participatory media.

– Axel Bruns, author of Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life, and Beyond: From Production to Produsage

(can’t say much more, because I haven’t read it yet, but if I were you I would like to know I absolutely need to read it)

New ARG website

admin — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 12:44:10 +0000

From Argresearch: a new website on ARGs is out there, ready to answer all our questions on what is an ARG, on ARG design, history, and much more.
Featuring guest stars Brian Alexander, Christy Dena, and many others.

www.argology.com

Even More Remediation: Orwell’s Diaries

admin — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 19:31:44 +0000

Now you can say there are very special bloggers around, and some of them even manage to do it 60 years after they passed away.
the Orwell Prize set up a blog with Orwell’s diaries, posted day by day beginning July 1938. This experiment for me unveils the fictional potential of all blogging, that gives the “reality taste” to whatever sort of text proposes.
As those diaries were actually written “for real”, the effect is unsettling, and for me a very emotional experience. Can’t wait for Anne Frank’s blog.

/courtesy of if:book

Technorati Tags: books, remediation, Web 2.0

New ARG website

admin — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:16:25 +0000

One more website to keep an eye on, Launched by the IGDA ARG SIG, looks pretty promising, with very understandable definitions of ARGs, a lot of tips for designers, an History of ARGs and much more.. As a bonus, the mighty Christy Dena is in it, check it out www.argology.org.

Crossover Labs at Sheffield Doc/Fest

admin — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:11:33 +0000

I am not sure if it is just an accident, or if Crossover Labs have anything to do with cross media production, but, seeing that they are directed by the digital media evangelist Frank Boyd, I would suspect they do. Calls are open.