Cyril has an interesting post about the "death of video-games". IMO video games creativity is not dead. What is dead is the video game development model which suck and is so publisher-driven that it kills innovation. Garage studios are no longer viable, in-house studios are following the headquarte...
Neverending drawing
(Via), this Neverending Drawing project (by Oskar Karlin) is very neat: Never ending drawing is a project I started in Stockholm five years ago. Inspired by Douglas Coupland’s book Microserfs, Paul Auster’s New York Trilogy and some drawings made by my sister I started mapping my movements in the c...
No buttons to press, just gesture
Time has an article about Nintendo's strategy. There is a relevant point there: Nintendo can reinvent gaming and in the process turn nongamers into gamers. (...) "Why do people who don't play video games not play them?" Iwata has been asking himself, and his employees, that question for the past fi...
Blutooth locative media
BlueWay is a project carried out at the ITP by Myra Einstein, David Yates, Robert Faludi, Arly Caryn Ross, Leif Mangelsen: BlueWay at the Spring Show provides personalized guidance to friends, business contacts, locations, projects, and services by taking advantage of technology already carried by ...
Account from the Metaverse Summit
News.com has a great account of the Metaverse Summit, which was about how video game design, geospatial engineering, high-tech research, software development, social networking, telecommunications would reshape the virtual world (or the overlap between the physical and the real world). The outcome ...
Meeting with PhD advisor
Today I had a meeting with my PhD advisor about the thesis outline - which is actually more than that since we discussed the research rationale (le fil rouge of the dissertation) as well as the expected contribution. As Chris Johnson puts it, the work should be articulated around three dimensions: ...
WiFi Rabbit Opera -Flash Mob
Regine pointed me on this cool event: a opera for nabaztag at the Web Flash Festival on May 27th. It's a kind of flash mob with communicating artifacts: 100 Nabzatags (Wifi rabbits) brought by their owners will play an opera created by Antoine Schmitt et Jean-Jacques Birgé at the Centre Pompidou in...
What about the beta mindset in pervasive computing
cph127 has a good point about what they call "the rise of beta": the very fact that . everything is launched as beta and everything happens to be unfinished. They wrote a beta-manifesto, here are some excerpts: being in beta is a natural state of life. Everything aroundus is either evolving or d...
Attention span research in media industry
Researchers in LA are trying to help world's biggest media companies and their high-profile clients understanding the divided consumer's attention span (source: NYT): The Emerging Media Lab is run by Interpublic, a holding company for media- buying firms like Universal McCann and Initiative. Since ...
Repetition in new media art
Regine has been interviewed by fine art Trendbeheer. One of the topic they discussed is very relevant to me: Trendbeheer: Art is all about hypes and media art more then that: there are so much sponsored/government subsidised events these days - at least in Holland - that there are more conferences ...