Intimate Transactions Presented by the Brisbane Festival 2006, and Centre Of Contemporary Art, Cairns and conceived and developed by Transmute Collective, Intimate Transactions is a new type of interactive installation that allows two people, located in geographically separate spaces, to interact simultaneously using only their bodies. As this highly immersive experience evolves through digital image, […]
This is becoming quite an interest of mine over the past few months and has also taken centre stage as the focal theme of my online drama work. There are emerging more and more stories about griefing across the entire web – in games, virtual communities, online worlds… etc…. Mark Wallace over at 3pointD and […]
There are several really good books released over recent months that offer some insights in emerging trends and new phenomenon form online worlds. Â
Tonight or tomorrow – depending whee you are and when you read this Ars Virtua present a special exhibition inside its Second Life new media centre and gallery. Get along to TRANSPOSITIONÂ This show includes projects with very different data sets and very different intentions. Data sets ranging from four letter words to prescription pharmaceuticals, […]
The ZeroOne San Jose Festival will transform San Jose into the North American epicenter for the intersection of art and digital culture by showcasing the world’s most innovative contemporary artists. ZeroOne San Jose is artists making art and using technology as a tool to do so. It is not technology for technology’s sake. ZeroOne San […]
Trinity College has made available.. term papers written by undergraduate students in the class “Games for the Web: Ethnography of Massively Multiplayer On-line Games.” These students used a combination of quantitative and qualitative research methods to explore sociological issues associated with massively multiplayer virtual worlds. Each student in the class pursued a different research question. […]
The folk over at The Games Institute and Muzzy Lane are offering a 4 week online course “Using Games in Education”… With Using Games in Education, you can bring the opportunities of digital games into your classroom. This ten unit course explores “why games”—the theories of educational gaming—and “how games”—the practical aspects of implementing educational […]
Over at Terra Nova they are talking about this insurance commercial (“The Lord of Mishap”) which was first aired on TV. Check it out and pop back when you’re finished.
Dr Dean Chan presented at the CREATEC seminar today about his work in Theorising Diasporic Asian Cultures. His discussion on Asian American Gamers was a taster of his ongoing research into this area. His introduction of the “Garden Grove” experience of a few years ago was especially interesting albeit very brief. PRIVACY, FREE SPEECH & […]
A new book, The Body and The Screen, from Michelle White looks at issues relating to online representations. Internet and computer users are often represented onscreen as active and empowered–as in AOL’s striding yellow figure and the interface hand that appears to manipulate software and hypertext links. In The Body and the Screen Michele White […]