Content tagged "aesthetics"
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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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Poetics 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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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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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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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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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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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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.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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Scroop, 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.
