The Small World Exhibition examines how the world is being shaped by new technologies, setting this in the context of the last 160 years of industrial and global change. To accompany the show there will be a series of talks and educational events. Opening...
This past week's Virtual Cinema course at Dartmouth College proved that machinima works can go far beyond the tried and true. A mere handful of students explored lost love, gaming culture, poet-zombie attacks, and perhaps most importantly, the pensive and strange qualities of virtual life....
Stay tuned -- a new PLAYCUBE event at Dartmouth! Friday, May 7th: AREA+the Playcube present "This is my World" The Spring Student Art Exhibition Gallery opening from 5-7PM, with the Cube serenading the Top of the Hop Music + refreshments provided! (in the belly of the the CUBE=digital photography and short...
Composer Pauline Oliveros joins us in our weekly variable_d salon via the Dialogues. In Dialogues, students and members of the community come with ideas, themes, and questions and engage in a teleconferenced discussion of contemporary issues in the work. Past visitors have included Brenda Laurel, The...
Indie Italian gamemaker Molleindustria's release Every Day the Same Dream is a simple, elegant, exploration into the banalities of everyday corporate life. While there are some glaring stereotypes that take away from its freshness and originality (especially in regard to gender; the character's wife is in...
Tonight, Kathe Kollwitz of the Guerrilla Girls joined the variable_d salon to discuss activism in a digital age. Formed in 1985, the artists assumed the names of dead women artists and wore gorilla masks in public, concealing their identities and focusing on the issues...
Tiltfactor's Mary Flanagan will be visiting MIT's Gambit lab on Monday 2nd November, for Introduction to Game Studies. Later in the day she is speaking at the MIT series Purple Blurb about her art practice as it relates to her theory of Critical Play. On Tuesday...
Mary just returned from showing the new work [perfect.city] at the Incheon Digital Art Festival. The work is a two channel video installation, projected on a double sided screen. One side features a Sims 3 slowed machinima of everyday life in New Songdo, the new...
Look what we've done to Hanover! <the mobile unit PLAYCUBE in action> The PLAYCUBE, our unique mobile exhibition space, has been home to two events since its arrival on campus last week-- and these have been entirely unusual + much fun! We've attracted an interesting cross section...