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This evening we began the Art History of Games symposium here in Atlanta, organized by Savannah College of Art and Design – Atlanta and Georgia Tech. After introductions, myself and my co-organizers John Sharp and Michael Nitsche presented a discussion of the concept of an art history of games. Then John Romero presented his keynote “Masters among Us,” about learning… read more

My colleague Carl DiSalvo, who will participate in this April’s OOO Symposium, has started up a blog: Objects & Things. The site will offer another perspective on objects, that of design. I’ve added it to the SR Aggregator.

The Atlantan just put out their annual Best of Atlanta issue, and it includes a “design” section which features a handful of Georgia Tech researchers, myself among them. You can read it online; you’ll just have to navigate to page 34-35, where the article begins. There are some zingers. As a preview, behold the start of the spread:

Via Peter Gratton, I’ve just read Slate’s detailed review of Louis Menand’s new book The Marketplace of Ideas, about the state of the university and the anxiety of the professoriate. Given that my own feelings about such matters are far less measured and far more informal than Menand’s, I’ll look forward to reading the book, since he clearly covers many… read more

Over at the Digital Media and Learning blog, Liz Losh writes a nice introduction to the “emerging theory” of object-oriented philosophy. Her post discusses the surprise popularity of objects at last month’s Digital Arts and Cultures conference, including very prominent mention in Kate Hayles opening plenary. Losh then asks how object-oriented teaching might work at a practical level, offering some… read more

The Independent Game Festival (IGF) has announced finalists for the 2010 competition. I’m happy to say that my game A Slow Year is among the finalists in the Nuovo category, designed “to honor abstract, shortform, and unconventional game development which advances the medium and the way we think about games.” The Nuovo jury has also issued a statement about their… read more

I’ve reported twice on my experience selling things on Zazzle, the custom on-demand online print service for apparel and paper goods. First, just over a year ago, I mentioned the t-shirt designs I had made to riff on the Disney World monorail announcer notice, “Por favor manténgase alejado de las puertas.” Second, a few months ago, I reported that Zazzle… read more

Recently I was speaking to a writer about my recent work. She’s doing a feature for a local magazine on creativity research and design practice in the region. I’ve been fortunate to get a lot of press over the years, and it’s become increasingly important to me to find ways to make my work comprehensible and applicable to a general… read more

The Art History of Games is a three-day public symposium in which members of the fields of game studies, art history and related areas of cultural studies gather to investigate games as an art form. Speakers include me, Brenda Brathwaite, Jesper Juul, Frank Lantz, Henry Lowood, Christiane Paul, John Romero, and more. Also featured in the conference is the premiere… read more

While I’m catching up from last week’s trip to the Mobile Media Symposium at UCLA (more on that later), and this week’s new deadlines, I thought I’d drop a few CFPs for those of you who might be interested. First, the International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games has published a CFP for the 2010 conference, which will take… read more