design for postdigital play | microethology

an imaginary system

Posted on January 27, 2020March 6, 2020 By sethgiddings

Whilst the cultural, representational, ideological and economic assumptions that feed and are fed by imaginaries can be uncovered and subject to critique, imaginaries are…

AI and the future of play

Posted on January 9, 2020July 2, 2020 By sethgiddings

Placeholder for a position statement on my current research and teaching on the genealogy and emergent dimensions of artificial intelligence in play and technoculture.

AI and games

Posted on November 21, 2019July 2, 2020 By sethgiddings

Workshop with level 3 Games Design & Art students, October 2019 references: Giddings, Seth 2014 ‘Soft worlds and AI’ (extract from chapter 3 of)…

toying with the singularity

Posted on August 2, 2019February 8, 2022 By sethgiddings

My chapter on the design of playful AI and robotics – and the relationships between the material, the technical and the imaginary – is…

the city is already a playground

Posted on June 25, 2019September 23, 2021 By sethgiddings

The city is already a playground. Creative projects to turn urban spaces into playful installations or events are often predicated on the implicit assumption…

toying with the singularity

Posted on April 28, 2018July 2, 2020 By sethgiddings

I’ve added a draft of ‘Toying with the singularity’ to the Publications page – a chapter for The Internet of Toys: practices, affordances and the political…

smARtmurals

Posted on February 26, 2018 By sethgiddings

A project I have been involved in – smARtmurals for Southampton City Art Gallery – opened on Thursday 22nd February in the Spark Building at Southampton…

talking about the playful future

Posted on November 20, 2017November 20, 2017 By sethgiddings

A talk at the University of York’s Theatre, Film & TV Department‘s research seminar series on October 11th. Taking the Lightbug project to design interactive playground equipment…