Tiltfactor's director gave day one's closing keynote at Connected Life 2016: Collective Action and the Internet, a two day-long conference, held at the University of Oxford on 20th and 21st June 2016. The conference is dedicated to igniting multidisciplinary exchanges on internet research across information studies, digital humanities, psychology,...
Tiltfactor researcher Geoff recently represented the lab (and the Metadata Games project in particular) at the 2014 Human Computation Roadmap Summit, held at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC, from June 18-20. This 2.5 day workshop, which brought together a...
(PDF version here) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: contact@tiltfactor.org 603.646.1007 Dr. Mary Flanagan, director of Tiltfactor Laboratory and Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor in Digital Humanities at Dartmouth College, will deliver several talks this summer and fall on such topics as critical play, games as an art form, and games as a...
The term "New Media" is expanding, since its emergence out of Pop Art, Fluxus, and other earlier movements, to mean many things. It is digital, it is interactive, it is dynamic, it is animated, it is dangerously hactivist...
by goyo BEEP! — BEEP! — BEEP! — BEEP! — BEEP! — BEEP! — BEEP! — BEEP! — BEEP! — BEEP! — BEEP! — BEEP! — BEEP! What was that? Oh, it’s the alarm. I was up late last night and forgot to turn it off! Suddenly...
"Our machines are disturbingly lively, while we ourselves are frighteningly inert." Kenneth laughs, quoting the prophecy of Donna Haraway. He wiggles his fingers limply as the cyborg pins him to the wall. "It's quite apt, don't you think?" He turns to me and grins. "Who knew...
and stereotypical, this recently spotted advert in London by Tiltfactor folks reminds us of some of the, ah, allegedly 'old school myths' about gender and computing. Holiday shopping is already in swing. For him, the Vanquish Game. For her, Stella McCartney Gift Set. ...
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....
At Tiltfactor we're designing a suite of games that inspires users to tag photographs with “expert” data. Using their input, are building a searchable database of terms that users can explore to find the photographs they need. But how should such a database be constructed...
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...