Games scholar Miguel Sicart of the IT University of Copenhagen looks at the culture, aesthetics, and technological implications of play in the age of computers.
Todd Harper: “Fight Like Gentlemen: The Culture of Fighting Games”
A talk on the fighting game community, its spiritual and physical roots in the arcade, common practices, and how issues of ethnicity and gender collide.
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.
Media in Transition 8: Public Media, Private Media
Submissions accepted on a rolling basis until Friday, March 1, 2013.
Podcast: A Conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates
“One of the things people say is the humanities tend to be easier than the sciences. But practicing the humanities is not easy at all.”
Reading Programming Code as a Cultural Object
Let’s talk about what it means to start reading code differently, as cultural objects and statements. Let’s raise the questions that need to be raised.
Podcast: Hector Postigo, “Cultural Production and Social Media as Capture Platforms: How the Matrix Has You”
Hector Postigo on a theoretical framework for understanding how, generally, social media’s technical feature-sets create a system of capture and conversion.
