Hey gamers! This weekend, almost 70K people will be gathering in Boston at the Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) for the ultimate gaming event. Game lovers of all forms--digital to analog, casual to hardcore, serious to playful--will be represented and you'll play your socks off nonstop for...
Tonight at 7pm in Silsby 028, come learn about the mathematics behind the game SET with Professor Liz MacMahon from Lafayette College! If you haven't played SET before, be sure to do so! Play online at www.setgame.com. Explore the card game through combinatorics, probability, linear...
Can you learn math skills through moving your token in a board game? Geetha Ramani, a professor at the University of Maryland, and Robert Siegler, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, have published a study that suggests that low-income preschoolers demonstrated more proficiency on mathematical...
When I first entered this class, I had a very clear definition of art, and interactivity wasn’t part of it. Anything that involved interaction was automatically a game. Engaging the user was an automatic distinction for me between what was art and a display. I really...
When one considers the breadth of new media art that has been popularized in the last several decades, a major trend emerges: they’re about big messages. Famous pieces we’ve examined this term, from Domestic Tension to The French Democracy, all have a serious thematic purpose....
"Losing my anonymity in this world I think is something that I find terrifying." Alex O'Laughlin For many of us this, this statement rings true. The public life is brutal, demanding, and demeaning. To be a public figure is to be subject to public scrutiny in...
New media art gives us the opportunity to explore further what networking can do for communities on a small and global scale. In most cases, digital networking allows users to interact with an inflated number of people than they would have interacted with in person. ...
Can games have meaning beyond its context of entertainment? In the past, I never considered game development as a possible aspect of creating new media art. Indeed, many games created share no commonalities with the principles of new media art. The fact that games contain...
Imagine hiking across the lone desert with the sun beating down on you. You wipe your brow and taste the salty dry sweat on your brow. Your heart keeps tempo while you try to stay focused on the trail ahead. Suddenly, memories come rushing through...
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...