A news piece on Tiltfactor's metadata project aired Sept. 29 on WCAX-Channel 3, Vermont's statewide television station based in Burlington. The piece features project director Mary Flanagan and one of her students, Danielle Arostegui, from Dartmouth. A print story also appears on the station's...
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,...
Google book search, on track to become the world's largest digital library, is discussed in this important Chronicle article. This is an important discussion about rights, access, searching, and metadata. The article points to the mislableling of metadata and other issues in searching Google...
There is a nifty new study by cultural anthropologist Jamie Tehrani at Durham University which looks at the evolution and transmission of traditional folktales around the world. His research team used biological mapping techniques that are used to make "the tree of life" project, which...
Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip Fruin, and Mary Flanagan, half of the art-theory collaboration Grand Text Auto, gathered at the Digital Games Research Association's 2009 Conference: Breaking New Ground: Innovation in Games, Play, Practice and Theory in Uxbridge, UK. Mateas is speaking on "Operational Logics,"...
Tiltfactor director Mary Flanagan was interviewed in, "Labeling Library Archives Is a Game at Dartmouth College" in the Chronicle of Higher Education about the new NEH project called "Metadata Games." The interview perhaps overplays the "free labour" aspect of the game itself. Using play...
Tiltfactor has been awarded a new National Endowment for the Humanities grant. Mary Flanagan, the Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor in Digital Humanities at Dartmouth College, in collaboration with Dartmouth College's Archivist Peter Carini of the Rauner Special Collections Library, has received an National Endowment for...
Does Bejeweled calm the savage beast? In a recent study funded by the game makers Popcap Games reported in the Washington Post, researchers found improved moods and heart rhythms in players-- coherent, equally spaced rhythms. The researchers note that mental health benefits for many could...
the PLAYCUBE is home to a performative sweatshop today as students trace where all of their 'free campus t-shirts' come from; taking place on the Dartmouth College campus, 1-3pm today. Next week, on the 26th of August, we will host a locally produced Machinima show...
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...