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...
Dr. Doris Rusch visited Dartmouth today, and offered a compelling discussion of the purposeful use of games. She looked at the ways in which the human condition is expressed through other media such as language, literature, and film, and went on to argue for the...
Doris Rusch, MIT Gambit Game Lab Wednesday April 28 3pm talk, "Purposeful Game Design" Dr. Rusch discusses how she explores abstract concepts related to the human condition in her game design, primarily using metaphors to find links between sites of strong emotion and game play. Tiltfactor Laboratory, 304 North...
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...
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...