Sherry Turkle is coming to Dartmouth to speak on the 10th of February about her newest research, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other, published by Basic Books. The 15th of April 2011 we're hosting a DIGITAL POETRY...
Tiltfactor's official foray into health games begins this spring. Our new board game and associated web based game are launching in March at the NH Immunization Conference. The game will be for sale on our newly designed website, launching also in March. Watch this space!...
Dartmouth's Tiltfactor is a partner in the Games for Learning Institute, centered at NYU. We're launching a game competition and invite you to participate!...
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....
catch it all tomorrow with a Tiltfactor open house 3-6pm hosted by Digital Humanities Professor Mary Flanagan and her student design team in 304 North Fairbanks, Dartmouth College; followed by "Rebooting Our Democracy" a public lecture by Prof. Lawrence Lessig 7:00 p.m. Thursday, May 27, 2010 Filene Auditorium, Moore...
Avatars discovered in the tenure process? Mobile spaces for transmedia exhibitions? Ancient manuscripts in MRI machines? Teaching with databases instead of texts? How are technicians, scientists, artists, designers, and humanists pursuing 21st-century research? How are institutions of higher education affected along with the scholars? As...
Some of the Tiltfactor team members are attending Toyfair this week researching product development and educational toys. We especially enjoyed meeting folks at Rubbing Hands, a small company in Connecticut. They showed us their games including Fred and Capture the Gag, which were very well...
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...
Please join us in Hanover for an upcoming symposium at Dartmouth College, "Activism in the Electronic Age: The impact of technology on political protest" will examine the recent 2009 Iranian elections and other historic moments of activism involving the use of technology. Tuesday, February 9,...
Mary Flanagan is in Washington D.C. at the National Endowment for the Humanities Project Director meeting. Interesting discussions emerged on the ideas about digital commons. We will have a large meeting soon with our team, technical designer, and advisory board to officially launch the project,...