I found out about an ARG that had been created by some educators in Queensland and covered their research in the forthcoming (I hope it comes out soon) IGDA ARG SIG Whitepaper. Well, just yesterday I flew down to Melbourne to be the external assessor for a class that had the project of creating an … Read moreARGs in Education
DAC, the premier international digital arts conference, will be in Perth next year with Beap. They have just announced the first stage of acceptances: The reviewing of the 230 abstracts has now been completed, and many thanks to the reviewers for the enormous task. In a process that turns out to have been highly competitive, … Read moreDAC in Australia
Here are two projects by wonderful colleagues of mine: Is Your House Killing You? was my team for LAMP. It will be on SBS soon, but at present there is a call for people to be on the TV show!: Put YOUR home under the microscope in our groundbreaking new science show ‘Is Your House Killing You?’ … Read moreIs Your House Killing You? and A Bullet Waits for You
MIT Comparative Media Studies and the Convergence Culture Consortium present the Futures of Entertainment Conference, November 17-18, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Wohoo! Here is the blurb: As advertisers look for new ways to engage audiences, content creators search for new audiences, and audiences quest for new ways to connect with culture, the nature of what counts as … Read moreTransmedia Sessions at Futures of Entertainment Conference
After my presentation at AOIR, How the Internet is Holding the Center of Conjured Universes, Kevin interviewed me. This is something that I encourage all event organisers to do. As a presenter I was bursting to talk more about my research — and I should say that AOIR gave us the chance to have a good … Read moreMy First Video Interview Online!
Rick Mathieson interviews Mike Benson, the Senior Vice President of Marketing for ABC Entertainment, on “multi-platform branded entertainment”. It is an audio interview about The Lost Experience from a branding perspective (which extends an earlier article on the topic too). I’ve popped some notes about each one here: Part 1: Benson spoke about how The Lost Experience helped … Read moreThe Lost Experience: Branding Perspective Interview
Baby Rock Records is offering lullaby versions of rock tunes so that the parents can enjoy listening as much as their bundles of joy. They’ve got lullaby versions of Metallica, ColdPlay, Bjork, Radiohead, Pink Floyd, Tool, The Cure, Beach Boys, Led Zeppelin, Nirvana, The Pixies, Queens of the Stone Age, No Doubt, Smashing Pumpkins and The Beatles. … Read moreBabies Rock!
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My latest articles in SLATE Magazine explore the notion of the art space in virtual worlds. In part one I analyse how some spaces are remediations of the real world and then in part two I pose ideas about what would be the ‘white cube’ equivalent (the ideal environment to experience art) in a virtual … Read moreThe Art Space in Virtual Worlds
**World Premiere** **Day Of The Figurines, HAU, Berlin** Blast Theory presents the world premiere of Day Of The Figurines, a mass participation artwork using mobile phones that is part board game and part secret society. Set in a fictional English town that is littered, dark and underpinned with steady decay, the game unfolds over 24 … Read moreNew Blast Theory Work: Day of the Figurines