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The Play Research Group, UWE, Bristol
studying the technologies and cultures of games and play

gamers and their avatars - I missed this at the time.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/04/technology_gamers_and_their_avatars/html/1.stm

posted by: helen at 20:58 | link | comments |

Music from GameBoys. This from the BBC:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4083505.stm

posted by: sethgiddings at 17:07 | link | comments |

Technology: a symposium Friday 21 Jan
room 210, George Eliot Building, Nottingham Trent University

'War, Media, Machine' Neal Curtis (NTU)
'Collective Intelligence?: computer games & fan appropriation' Dave Woods (NTU)
'"crt+alt+delete" technology and the culture of mobile listening' Michael Bull (Sussex)
'Sunglasses: fashion, coolness & technology' Vanessa Gill-Brown (NTU)
'Technologies & the Sex Hygiene Film' Gary Needham (NTU)

ben.taylor@ntu.ac.uk

posted by: sethgiddings at 14:33 | link | comments |

posted by: sethgiddings at 22:34 | link | comments |

Net art supremos JODI have an exhibition in Exeter. This includes their new work which "depicts the artists playing Max Payne, [...] caught up in an endless cycle of ‘shoot-em-up’ violence and paranoia. Through their game play, JODI reject the mission of the game, flouting the rules and disregarding the imperative to win. This makes them not ‘cheats’ but ‘spoilsports’, heretics in relation to the game world – and to the computing orthodoxy.

http://www.spacex.co.uk/

posted by: sethgiddings at 22:31 | link | comments (4) |

boogie woogie! jazz, art and ghosts...

 

 

 

 

http://pbfb.ca/pac-mondrian/play.html

posted by: sethgiddings at 16:44 | link | comments (4) |

London Evening Standard:  Friday 10th December - all typos mine.

Front page headline:

Beware:  Video Games Can Kill.

order your tshirts now!

 

 

posted by: helen at 06:19 | link | comments (2) |

I have a much longer posting that I intend to write about the Other Players conference I have just attended in Copenhagen (www.itu.dk/op for proceedings) but I came across a blog which irritated me so much I spent all my available energy doing a posting to that... the link is below.

 

http://www.intelligent-artifice.com/2004/12/on_academia.html

posted by: helen at 17:18 | link | comments (13) |

 

 

 

 

 

posted by: sethgiddings at 16:04 | link | comments |

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