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Code as text: Mark Marino on the academic potential of code
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
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PAUSE: Soulja Boy’s thoughts on Braid
This is an oldie but a goodie. The best part about this video is everything about this video. -Drew Millard
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Minecraft player recreates MC Escher
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
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How to (virtually) write all over your walls
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
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PAUSE: "Super Brontë Sisters" cartoon suggests Jane Eyre would have been better as a platformer
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]
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Gamers’ spatial reasoning aids HIV research
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
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Jason Nelson on the future of games as a medium
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
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September 30th, go for Baroque with KS and "Johann Sebastian Joust"
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September 18, 2011, 11:10 am
ArtInfo reports that artist Pippin Barr created an 8-bit video game to simulate the experience of sitting with Marina Abramovic at MoMA, which was available in real-life in Fall 2010. The game includes waiting in line and paying museum admission. Players are confronted with a long queue of 8-bit
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NHL 2012 includes playable female characters
Well, sort of. The newest installation in EA Sports’ long-running NHL series now offers the ability to, when creating a playable character, to give your avatar a female face. The change— a first for EA Sports— comes at the behest of Lexi Peters, a 14 year-old from Buffalo, New York who wrote the spo
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Is this the Mercury Prize of games? Introducing GameCity Prize
GameCity, a prominent UK videogame festival, recently unveiled the GameCity Prize, a new type of videogame award meant to honor a game that most significantly pushes the artistic limits for what they call “one of the most significant cultural forms of our age.” The winner will be judged by a panel c