Posted in art, installation, space, tagged art, game, interface on September 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Just came across Julian Oliver’s levelhead project. Such a simple maze game with a simple and compelling interface. lovely. You rotate and tilt a physical cube to move a tiny player through rooms – the object being to get through the maze. a memory game…
it is great when the content matches [...]
Posted in art, space, tagged game on April 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have been reading Mihaly Csikszentmihalya’s book on flow for a bit now. It is a bit dry and awkward in that way academic writing that tries to be popularist can be, not flow-like at all…
Anyway that aside, his work definately describes the art making experience at length, using a range of examples of other [...]
Posted in city, quote, space, walk on April 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Debord’s The Naked City (1957), as a map of the dérive, is said to bring out those differences that are suppressed by the abstract and homogeneous descriptions of the ‘voyeur’, by fragmenting and re-connecting the Plan de Paris. In the dérive, the city is experienced as a cluster of events, never fully seen and always contingent: ”there are spaces where experiences [...]
Posted in landscape, place, space, walk on March 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Continuing on from Dérive, and from the The Flâneur, I am in the midst of thinking and dreaming up a topography to house text. it seems like an impossible task, or rather a tautological task to represent representation. anyway… in my wanderings and wonderings i found The ETHNOPHYSIOGRAPHY Project, which at first glance seems like another useless thesis that [...]
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