Jamin Warren founded Killscreen. He produced the first VR arts festival with the New Museum, programmed the first Tribeca Games Festival, the first arcade at the Museum of Modern Art, won a Telly, and hosted Game/Show for PBS.
The Atlantic muses that the Kindle has killed the idea of the book cover. While the device has enabled all types of new activities (social annotations, lightness of being, euphoria), the lack of cover is not without metaphorical weight: A digital book has no cover. There’s no paper to be bound up wi
Desiree Brown sat down with author Brian McGreevy to talk about his new novel Hemlock Grove, a modern twist on the vampire and werewolf genre. What ensues is a rather strange conversation about the nature of fear and the modern occult, but he does offer a twist on what a monster or a villain could o
New York-based visual artist Sandy Smith constructed this sunset from donated computers. [Via Pulmonaire]
Way back in issue 3, we explored what games infants play when they play games in our piece “The Young and the Scoreless.” Ryan Bradley examined the world of electronic games through the lens of three-year-old Jackson who’s been working out some life issues through iPad games: Play can be serious bus
I’m trying to finish every episode of the wonderful science and culture podcast/radio program Radiolab this year and during my quest, I came across a quote from their 2008 episode titled “My So-Called Life” about the boundaires of science, morality, and bioengineering. They quote theoretical physici
Daniel Rehn points out a project I missed called the Joint, a fictional collection of rooms in a fake apartment building where each site is a byte of pixellated goodness.
Rhett Allain is an Associate Professor of Physics at Southeastern Louisiana University and his is obsessed with Angry Birds Space. (So are we.) Part of series of posts exploring gravitational physics, he’s updated his previous model that suggested “the gravitational force was constant and there was