My Work at FILE Brazil
Two of my video art pieces (Layers & Waiting) will be showing at FILE Sao Paulo in August! I’m still trying to figure out if I’ll be able to make it there myself, but the news is great either way.
Archive for May, 2008
Welcome Back
I’ve been out of the posting loop for a while, but as an effort to get back into it I’m posting some links that I’ve been holding onto for a while. Some advice: if you want to blog regularly, don’t make a toblog tag on del.icio.us and fill it up to the point that it’s totally overwhelming.
- Joseph Delappe (of Dead in Iraq fame) reenacted Gandhi’s 240 mile “Salt March to Dandi” in Second Life by walking on a treadmill setup at Eyebeam in New York.
- Wired recently reported on the US Defense Intelligence Agency’s (DIA) use of what I would call Serious Games to train incoming and current intelligence officers. One of my close childhood friends was involved in these games and works in DC. With all of the game blogs I read, I’m surprised I didn’t come across it myself, but she excitedly sent the link and interestingly called it a “toy my team developed.” These toys, according to Wired, teach agents “how to think.”
- I haven’t laughed this hard in a while: a Team Fortress 2 Mod that plays Celine Dion’s My Heart Will Go On (from Titanic) karaoke style. Yes, the players all attempt to sing while fragging.
- Not least, Retro Sabotage is a great collection (updated every week for a while, now it’s when they can) of sabotaged (remixed) versions of old-school arcade games. So far they’ve taken on Pong, Xevious, Breakout, Pacman, Tetris, and Space Invaders. Standouts are Autopsy of a Battlefield, in which the Xevious landscape is already devastated and the player simply surveys the devastation, and Compromise, in which the player’s moves affect two separate Tetris games simultaneously (this one reminded me of DeHackEd’s Mega Man X & Mega Man X2 speed run dual-playthrough, although this one was created with emulator save states).
More to come soon (i.e. I’m not going another 2.5 months without posting).
