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.
Upset by the electronic waste he saw in Phenom Penh, Dhairya Dand was inspired to launch a line of toys built from those abandoned laptops, cell phones, and other digital detritus that is generally considered useless. He calls the project “Thinker Toys“: To begin with I made four of these toys, each
Video Tauba Auerbach and Cameron Mesirow (aka Glasser) created this beast of a pump organ with the intent that no one should play music alone. We think it should feature prominent in a future Rock Band: The instrument cannot be played alone. Each player has a keyboard with alternating notes of a fou
In 1973, after a teacher at Drake High School in North Dakota introduced Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, an over-zealous school board head demanded that all the copies be burned to protest the novel’s “obscene language.” Vonnegut intervened via a letter as pointed out by Jason Kottke. The entir
As part of this past weekend’s Molyjam, a 48-hour game creation competition based on the absurd tweets of Peter Molyneux parody account @Molydeux, Ben Pitt created a hilarious answer to the titular question. YOU ARE THE ROAD. [via Waxy]
Video Daniel Franke & Cedric Kiefer produced this amazing sound sculpture to visualize a dancer’s movements with the use of a Kinect: The basic idea of the project is built upon the consideration of creating a moving sculpture from the recorded motion data of a real person. For our work we asked a d
Is core gaming on the ropes? Jeff Grubb at VentureBeat thinks so in a long essay on the decline of traditional gaming categories. He points the ups and downs of THQ’s uDraw package, a Wacom-like drawing tablet for the Wii. After initial success, THQ doubled down to try and port the tablet to the Xbo
Spurred to action by The Corrections author Jonathan Franzen, Tim Clark takes a stab in the New York Review of Books at unravelling the idea that we need stories as Franzen maintains. Clark shoots for the self and argues that stories bring out a greater understanding of our own identities by locatin