Outputs (37)

Music city - do it, dare it, chance it (2008)
Exhibition / Performance

The exhibition presents selected works from the Song Archive Project in Europe, Iran and the USA from the past six years. The exhibition provided a method to explore significant themes relevant to each location, creating a series of autonomous projec... Read More about Music city - do it, dare it, chance it.

Death; A minor annoyance or an invitation to play? (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Games involve a lot of death, it’s hard to play games without encountering death in some format. But what does death mean in the context of games? This paper seeks to explore death firstly as a concept internally in games and also use various phenome... Read More about Death; A minor annoyance or an invitation to play?.

Horror and Aesthetics (2008)
Book

DVD review: Rene Laloux's Fantastic Planet (2008)
Journal Article

A review of the DVD release of Rene Laloux’s SF animated feature. Considers the nature of animation as a distinct cinematic form.

As we might watch: what might arise from reconsidering the concept of interactive film? (2008)
Journal Article

Interactive film form has been conceived of in terms of branching; multi-linear narratives predominantly drawing on the mechanics of the computer games industry. Interactive engagements produced within this framework have failed to revolutionise eith... Read More about As we might watch: what might arise from reconsidering the concept of interactive film?.

Book review: Hafez, K. The myth of media globalization (2008)
Journal Article

This is a book review of a book about globalization in relation to media.

The (mal)content generation: media practice in the digital environment (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In my role as Practice Section chair of MeCCSA I organised and chaired this panel bringing practice researchers and teachers together to discuss the impact of digital "content" on the field of media practice teaching and research.

A picture of virtue: Review of Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison, Objectivity (2008)
Journal Article

This is a 2,500 word book review of Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison’s co-written book, Objectivity, Zone Books, New York, 2007. I emphasise how they explain objectivity as a virtue, and use descriptions of scientific practices. I explain their dis... Read More about A picture of virtue: Review of Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison, Objectivity.

The stinking fish of suicide contagion (2008)
Journal Article

Dinosaurs and butterflies - media practice research in new media ecologies (2008)
Journal Article

The changes in traditional patterns of media production and consumption brought about by digital technologies in their networked form pose challenges to both practitioners and theorists. As the practices of mass media dissolve into the processes of t... Read More about Dinosaurs and butterflies - media practice research in new media ecologies.