Outputs (19)

A 'pataphysics engine: Technology, play, and realities (2007)
Journal Article

This article plays a game with Jean Baudrillard's thought and the intellectual traditions on which it draws. Or rather, it plays Baudrillard's game but with a cheat code. The game or program here is the hyperreality of the contemporary world-Baudrill... Read More about A 'pataphysics engine: Technology, play, and realities.

Dionysiac machines: Videogames and the triumph of the simulacra (2007)
Journal Article

This article rethinks concepts of the simulational and the simulacral for popular digital culture. It plays concepts of the modern world as hyperreal against the more modest, pragmatic, but vital, insights of game studies into the literally simulatio... Read More about Dionysiac machines: Videogames and the triumph of the simulacra.

Technicity and identity in the age of user-generated content (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

As technologies of communication and creativity become more deeply embedded into the fabric of our every day lives understanding subjectivity becomes a matter of understanding people's individual relation to technics as much as understanding class, r... Read More about Technicity and identity in the age of user-generated content.

The pig in the bath: New materialisms and cultural studies (2007)
Journal Article

Song Archive Project: Listen to England (2007)
Exhibition / Performance

What does England stand for and what does it mean to be English in the 21st century? An ambitious and unprecedented collaborative exhibition has been staged at six galleries across Sunderland and Southampton to bring together a diverse group of artis... Read More about Song Archive Project: Listen to England.

North + South (2007)
Book Chapter

North + South is an unprecedented collaborative project that explores who we think we are and what, in the twenty-first century, England stands for. Staged across six unique exhibitions, in galleries at the northern and southernmost ends of England,... Read More about North + South.

Technicity: power and difference in game cultures (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

As technologies of communication and creativity become more deeply embedded into the fabric of our every day lives understanding subjectivity becomes a matter of understanding people’s individual relation to technics as much as understanding geograph... Read More about Technicity: power and difference in game cultures.

Sensitive coverage saves lives (2007)
Report

Mike Jempson, director of MediaWise was commissioned to undertake this research by the Care Services Improvement Partnership (CSIP) and the National Institute for Mental Health in England (NIMHE). The study is part of the Shift programme to reduce st... Read More about Sensitive coverage saves lives.

Unfinished Business (2007)
Digital Artefact

In 2007 I Directed this film for Firstborn Creatives, for BBC1 (West). It explores how the city of Bristol has dealt with coming to terms with its historical links with the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, in the year of the bicentenary of the passing of... Read More about Unfinished Business.

Barbados to Bath (2007)
Digital Artefact

30 minute documentary exploring the story of how the city of Bath came to be home to one of the oldest Caribbean steel band orchestras in the UK.