Any clear conceptual distinctions between subjects and objects are weakened: ‘as a result of this process, the new machine becomes its relationship with its…
Tag: ethology
Orangujam
An enchanting talk by Hanna Wirman at the Bristol Games Hub yesterday. Every time I hear Hanna speak of her research designing games for…
at play in the flocking routine 2
From a draft version of a chapter for Michelle Henning’s forthcoming collection on Museum Media. Accompanying video is here. Occupying the final room…
at play in the flocking routine
A few lo-res seconds of an interactive video installation at the Wildwalk science centre in Bristol (closed in 2007). The fish move and respond…
Configuring the dancer
In the DNS / Stratus usability trials, neither machine nor user is settled / experienced / established. Consequently, the interactions are part of the…
Deleuze and ethology
The term ethology originates in the study of animal behaviour, the affects and capacities of animals and their environment. Gilles Deleuze (1992), with his…
Connecting the Dots…
I presented at Connecting the Dots: movement, space and the digital image at Cambridge University’s CRASSH last Friday – thanks to a kind invitation from Jenna Ng. I shared…
permeable realities
Video here. Current developments in mobile and locative media, and in augmented / mixed reality media (for instance at the Pervasive Media Studio…
The Reality of Imagination
A moment that didn’t make it into the final video version of a microethological study of play across a Real-Time Strategy game (Age of…
Complex
If the object of study of microethology is the event (and often entails the zooming on particularly rich sub-events for close attention), then how can the…
McLuhan, media, massage
Contributed to a day of screenings and seminars recently at the Watershed celebrating Marshall McLuhan’s centenary. Here’s the blurb for the panel I was…
DiGRA 2011
There’s a review of the Bristol interventions into this year’s remarkable, and building-site-themed, DiGRA conference in Hilversum, Utrecht by Jon Dovey here, which saves me…