Content tagged "aesthetics"
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Posted by Eric Gordon and Vassiliki Rapti
Ludics—Play as Humanistic Inquiry
In the introduction to the edited volume Ludics, Visiting Professor Eric Gordon and Vassiliki Rapti write that “this book takes the bold position that play is an antidote to dark times. Rather than an escape hatch, it provides opportunity for discovery, connection, joy, care, and relational aesthetics—conditions that are central to worldliness, not extraneous to it.”
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Posted by Sonny Sidhu S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2013
Topics: aesthetics, culture, design, games, marketing, video gamesPoetics of the Videogame Setpiece
Sonny Sidhu, ’13, placing the technique of AAA videogame setpieces within a series of wider technical, aesthetic, commercial, and cultural problematics.
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Posted by Nick Montfort and Mia Consalvo
The Dreamcast, Console of the Avant-Garde
We argue that the Dreamcast hosted a remarkable amount of videogame development that went beyond the odd and unusual and is interesting considerd as avant-garde.
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Posted by Andrew Whitacre
Video: Frank Lantz, “The Aesthetics of Games”
This talk explores what it means to consider games an aesthetic form — something akin to literature, music, or film. But what does it actually mean?
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Posted by Andrew Whitacre
Podcast: Fred Turner, “The Family of Man and the Politics of Attention in Cold War America”
Critics have decried The Family of Man as a model of the psychological and political repression of cold war America. Fred Turner’s talk challenges that view.
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Posted by Andrew Whitacre
Podcast: Frank Lantz, “The Aesthetics of Games”
Frank Lantz asks, “What does it mean when we say games are an aesthetic form akin to literature, music, or film?”
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Posted by Andrew Whitacre
Podcast: Francisco Ricardo, “The Aesthetics of Projective Spatiality: New Media as Critical Objects”
Francisco Ricardo examines the tension between acceptance of new media and materials and the rejection of new forms and structures they made possible.
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Posted by Karen Verschooren S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2007
Topics: aesthetics, art, economics, Internet, sociology.art: Situating Internet Art in the Traditional Institution for Contemporary Art
A solid ground for extrapolation and predictions for Internet art’s future as an art world in its relation to the traditional art institutions.
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Posted by Jennifer Boyce S.M., Science Writing, 2005
Topics: aesthetics, chemistry, science, silkScroop, Luster, and Hand: The Science and Sensuality of Silk
It is remarkable that one fiber can do so much. To fully grasp just how remarkable requires an appreciation of both the science and sensuality of silk.