Outputs (24)

Gameplay Mode: War, Simulation, and Technoculture (2011)
Book

From flight simulators and first-person shooters to MMPOG and innovative strategy games like 2008’s Spore, computer games owe their development to computer simulation and imaging produced by and for the military during the Cold War. To understand the... Read More about Gameplay Mode: War, Simulation, and Technoculture.

Benchmarking and evaluation in an international context (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Presentation on Curzon Memories App (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This presentation was jointly presented with Cathy Poole, Education Office at the Curzon Cinema Clevedon, exploring how the affordances of mobile media can be used to enhance learning and teaching about cinema history, cinema-going and cinema technol... Read More about Presentation on Curzon Memories App.

Keeping in touch (2011)
Preprint / Working Paper

This discussion paper summarises the key themes from Keeping In Touch, a collaborative research project for Connected Communities.

The Curzon Memories App: Shifting practices, from filmmaking to experience design (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Invited to lecture to MA students about the development of my practice from filmmaking to experience design, specifically reflecting on the impact of digital media on my practice research trajectory.

Spatialising the Archive: Dramatisation, oral history and locative heritage in the Curzon Memories App (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Spatialising the archive: Dramatisation, oral history and locative heritage in the Curzon Memories App at IMTAL International Museum and Theatre Alliance Conference, Bristol, October (invited).

Mini-games, monsters and Mr Happy: A video essay on virtual and actual play (2011)
Journal Article

This video essay is a microethological study of the transduction of a virtual world (the PC game Age of Mythologies) into the actual world play of children with toys and water. The video is constructed from an audio recording and a sequence of still... Read More about Mini-games, monsters and Mr Happy: A video essay on virtual and actual play.

Neurath's whale (2011)
Book Chapter

Taking a brief passage by Otto Neurath about a whale exhibit, I raise questions about how we interpret exhibits, using phenomenological and social-historical approaches, and I use Bruno Latour’s notion of objects as actants and imbroglios to reconsid... Read More about Neurath's whale.

Projection hero installation (2011)
Physical Artefact

The Projection Hero installation operates as part of the Curzon Memories App or a stand alone exhibit. It comprises of a rabbit hutch-sized miniature cinema, with velvet and gold brocade curtains and hand-carved seats which can be operated via your... Read More about Projection hero installation.

Technologies of seeing the past: The Curzon Memories App (2011)
Book Chapter

This paper presents a practice research project based at The Curzon Community Cinema, Clevedon, UK. Working closely with the cinema to develop a locative or context-aware heritage application for the iPhone, the project aims to enhance the Curzon’s... Read More about Technologies of seeing the past: The Curzon Memories App.