It was bound to happen. The University of Southern California has introduced a program that studies computer code—not for what it produces, but instead actually examining code through the lens of critical theory. It’s called Critical Code Studies, and it’s one of the most exciting nascent fields of
This is an oldie but a goodie. The best part about this video is everything about this video. -Drew Millard
Gaze at it the Minecraft iteration of “Relativity” in all its byzantine, surreal glory. Minecraft is truly a virtual Lego set. Game designers have been influenced by Escher for years now, but this is completely different. We can’t wait to see the next awesome thing Minecraft-ers come up with. -Drew
A new gaming platform using the Kinect? Artist Eric Mika’s überbeamer is a hand-held, spatially aware augmented reality projection system and a means of making any surface writeable. The überbeamer takes the basic premise of augmented reality – the mediation of a physical environment via an overla
Artist Tom Gauld has crossed the Brontë sisters with Super Mario Bros. in this adorable cartoon published in the Guardian. You can check out more of his work here. –Lana Polansky [via]
Finally, concrete evidence of gaming’s ability to help change the world: for the first time, “gamers” have received credit for a scientific breakthrough. Using a program called Foldit, they produced an accurate model of the monomeric protease enzyme, a result which could have implications for treatm
Guardian has a nice interview with Jason Nelson, an artist/poet who, along with Cory Archangel, is on the forefront of digital art. The interview touches on Nelson’s exodus to Australia (good), the death of Flash (bad), his games (purposefully Byzantine) and where he was giving the interview (a wait