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September 2, 2010

Art History of Games on YouTube

Videos of the Art History of Games talks are now available on YouTube. They're a bit easier to watch this way, not to mention easier to embed. The whole event was so superb, it's tough for me to pick favorites. But if I had to, I'd probably settle on talks ...

August 26, 2010

Art History of Games: Video

Go watch the awesome talks

Back in February, Georgia Tech Digital Media and SCAD Atlanta held the Art History of Games conference, which I organized along with Michael Nitsche and John Sharp. We had an amazing group of speakers as well as an opening for three commissioned games. It was unbelievably amazing in every way ...

July 4, 2010

Letting Go

The Realist Invitation and the Correlationist Imperative

A lively discussion erupted from my post on philosophy and politics of a few days ago. Among other things, commenters revisited the relationship between ontology and politics, issues OOO proponents in particular have attempted to disentangle. Among the many lengthy comments from David Rylance comes this snippet, which may have ...

July 1, 2010

Slow Media

A manifesto and blog

Given that I'm currently completing a project called A Slow Year, and given that it is, somewhat poetically, taking longer than I anticipated to finish, and given that I'm resolved to do it right rather than to do it fast, given all those things I was intrigued to learn of ...

June 25, 2010

Playful & Playable

Plus yet another update on A Slow Year

My forthcoming game A Slow Year is on exhibit at a show curated by Lara Sánchez Coterón, Playful & Playable: Critica y Experimentacion con Videojuegos. It runs until September 15 at Sala Amarica, in Vitoria Gasteiz (in northern Spain). Here's a description of the exhibition, which also includes work by ...

May 10, 2010

Duchamp's Grandchildren

Videogames as Art

From Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. Nothing is new under the sun. (thanks to Aaron Lanterman) ...

February 28, 2010

Philosopher Slab Poems, in Pixels and Letters

Also, win a copy of a book I haven't yet written

Sometimes serious ideas emerge from the strangest places. Last week Harman tossed an offhand question onto his blog: Who is the most overrated philosopher?. It sparked quite serious discussion all over. So serious that before long, Harman found himself wondering if an anthology of opinions on "overrated philosophers" could indeed ...

February 12, 2010

"People are More Important than Things"

What the Wall Said

One of my students found and snapped this plaque at last week's Art History of Games symposium. When mounted in an art museum like the High, an inscription this strives to remind its visitors that they stand above the artifacts held hostage in the galleries, despite the apparent attention paid ...

February 9, 2010

Information is Beautiful

...but it's not necessarily informative

My next book, Newsgames: Journalism at Play (co-authored with my graduate students Simon Ferrari and Bobby Schweizer), is being prepared for publication, and it should hit the streets in late summer of this year. In anticipation, I'll try to offer some occasional previews of the content we cover in the ...

February 6, 2010

The Art History of Games

Day 2 and Exhibition Opening

We're already into the third and final day of the Art History of Games symposium, and as an organizer I haven't even tried to blog the talks. You're best bet is to check out coverage online (Gamasutra covered part, but not all, of yesterday's sessions), or to review the Twitter ...

February 4, 2010

The Art History of Games

Day One

This evening we began the Art History of Games symposium here in Atlanta, organized by Savannah College of Art and Design - Atlanta and Georgia Tech. After introductions, myself and my co-organizers John Sharp and Michael Nitsche presented a discussion of the concept of an art history of games. Then ...

February 3, 2010

Objects & Things

DiSalvo joins the party

My colleague Carl DiSalvo, who will participate in this April's OOO Symposium, has started up a blog: Objects & Things. The site will offer another perspective on objects, that of design. I've added it to the SR Aggregator. ...

January 17, 2010

A History of the World in 100 Objects

From the BBC and the British Museum

Yet another high-profile slate of objects to report. The BBC and the British Museum are collaborating on a set of radio programs detailing a history of the world in 100 objects. The objects are drawn from the collection of the British Museum, and the radio program begins tomorrow (18 ...

January 16, 2010

Loosely-Cobbled Arrangements

Object-Oriented Philosophy and Sculpture in Art Papers

The object-oriented uprising continues. This time, it can be found in a sizable article in the November/December 2009 issue Art Papers Magazine. The piece stretches across eight pages or so (alas, only in print), covering contemporary sculpture and its relation to object-oriented philosophy. Often incorporating the detritus of everyday life, ...

November 29, 2009

Once Upon a Time in the West

Exhibiting Guru Meditation

I spent part of today assembling and testing Guru Meditation cartridges. Some are bound for collectors, but I'm also readying one to ship off to Slovenia for exhibition at Pixxelpoint 2009, the 10th International New Media Art Festival. The theme of the show is "Once Upon a Time in the ...

November 18, 2009

The Art History of Games

A Symposium, hosted by Georgia Tech and SCAD

The Art History of Games is a three-day public symposium in which members of the fields of game studies, art history and related areas of cultural studies gather to investigate games as an art form. Speakers include me, Brenda Brathwaite, Jesper Juul, Frank Lantz, Henry Lowood, Christiane Paul, John Romero, ...

October 15, 2009

Art on Spec

Thoughts on Kickstarter

A relatively new service called Kickstarter, which describes itself as a funding platform for artists. Writers, filmmakers, musicians, and other creators can post projects to the site with attached budgets, which visitors can fund via pledges. If the budget is met within the specified time, the project gets funded. Otherwise, ...

September 25, 2009

Peanuts, by Charles Bukowski

Schroeder played the piano and all of the girls loved him.

I'm not a big fan of fanfic, but I am quite enamored of appropriations of pop culture that shed surprising new light on their source material. For some time, my favorite example of this sort of thing has been Garfield Minus Garfield. By removing the titular cat from each comic ...

August 16, 2009

Amateur Gasbag Blooding

Anagrams and mysticism

Via Graham Harman, I discovered the "best name anagram" generator, which does exactly what it sounds like. For example, Graham Harman's anagram name is HA HA! GRR! MAN AM You may have seen it too, since the site makes it easy to post one's name anagram on Facebook, so anagrams ...