Lift with Fing 09: Timo Arnall: "Making Things Visible" from Lift Conference on Vimeo.
5.11.09
Bus Tops
London from Realm Productions Ltd on Vimeo.
Alfie Dennen and Paula Le Die have won their London Olympics bid-winning art project (as only only a week previously), Bus Tops. In it, the roofs of bus stops around the capital will be equipped with screens made from LEDs, networked and connected to an API which will allow people to display messages and simple graphics so that ‘routes become canvasses’ – able to tell stories and be a platform for simple games. And for those concerned for the usual subject of publicly created art: “We welcome penises if they’re as part of artistic expression.”Fictive Worlds
Let's play a game of Kes - Playful '09
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Game developer Duncan Gough, spoke at Playful about how one might design a game based on Ken Loach's film, Kes. Based on the principle of designing storytelling for children, and ‘teaching a lesson to young adults’, another nod to the other theme of the day, he proposed creating simple, web-based games with directed stories, much like the ones that Channel 4 Education’s team is currently creating.
Out of Bounds
This is Chris O’Shea’s project called Out Of Bounds. There is a childlike quality about wanting the ability to see through walls like a superhero character with x-ray vision. This memory is something the interactive installation Out of Boundsaims to capture.The work encourages visitors to bore through the walls of the museum and engage in a ‘behind the scenes’ experience with an x-ray torch. This playful interaction encourages childlike curiosity in young and old alike, and opens up a portal into the Museum's forbidden spaces.
Russel Davies on playfulness...
As part of the Playful talk at the end of the London Games Festival Russell Davies talked about the importance in games of pretending, and how pretending is a vital part of adulthood. After all, he said, isn’t having a Breitling watch all about the fantasy of being a pilot, and isn’t Jason Bourne’s popularity down to being a secret agent who spends most of his time commuting? Life needs novelty and hidden qualities, Davies said, noting the restrictions of a ‘total vision’ like Volkswagen’s piano stairs to be all they are on a single glance.
He also contended that today’s vision of augmented reality games in which you must peer into the screen all the time, have got it wrong. "They should be part of the world, not intrude on it," he said. Davies’ solution was his lighthearted but promising proposal of the SAT, or Situated Audio Platform, a geolocation game-cum-application for iPhone in which audio is stamped on to places. Near that place and the iPhone beeps until you point it at the spot and the audio plays. Naturally, games could easily follow, as his video demo showed, liberally splashed with laser and explosion sound effects as his fictional user tried to find an attacker before time ran out. Pretending, then, very much situated in the real world.
He also contended that today’s vision of augmented reality games in which you must peer into the screen all the time, have got it wrong. "They should be part of the world, not intrude on it," he said. Davies’ solution was his lighthearted but promising proposal of the SAT, or Situated Audio Platform, a geolocation game-cum-application for iPhone in which audio is stamped on to places. Near that place and the iPhone beeps until you point it at the spot and the audio plays. Naturally, games could easily follow, as his video demo showed, liberally splashed with laser and explosion sound effects as his fictional user tried to find an attacker before time ran out. Pretending, then, very much situated in the real world.
Piano stairs
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Hand From Above
22.10.09
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