Monthly Archives: August 2013

Craig Perko on Bot Fandom

Posted on 08/14/2013 by kunzelman

Like any kind of automation, it’s not that the human is written out. It’s that the task of believing, of being a fanboy… is being augmented. Fewer humans can accomplish more of the “fanboy” task. The fanboy robot does not … Continue reading →

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On Darius Kazemi’s “Scenes From The Wire”

Posted on 08/13/2013 by kunzelman

Earlier today Darius Kazemi released his newest project which is a bot that makes animated GIFs from a video file and its paired subtitles. In its current form, the bot is working through S2E1 of The Wire and is located at the … Continue reading →

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Robert Yang on Ludonarrative Dissonance

Posted on 08/12/2013 by kunzelman

I have several interesting posts (to me) that I want to write this week, but I came home from Gameloop 2013 (which I will write about at some later period) with a serious case of airplane flu. Hopefully this isn’t … Continue reading →

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Ann Hirsch’s “Scandalishious”

Posted on 08/09/2013 by kunzelman

This is the first thirty minutes of Ann Hirsch performance. She lived the life of a youtube “camwhore” (her words) for a significant amount of time, and I think this is the culmination of that work as a performance for … Continue reading →

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Pettman on Marder’s Plant-Thinking

Posted on 08/08/2013 by kunzelman

This is one of the central claims of Plant-Thinking, and yet I had difficulty squaring it with my own (admittedly inexpert) knowledge of “actual” plants. No doubt vegetal life is in many ways “unity in flux.” But does that mean it … Continue reading →

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In Watermelon Sugar and Game Design

Posted on 08/07/2013 by kunzelman

I’ve been trying to figure out how to write this post for a while. Several weeks ago I tweeted that everyone who makes games should read Richard Brautigan’s In Watermelon Sugar. Sam Crisp read it and flat-out asked me why I … Continue reading →

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Sway Talks About Riff Raff

Posted on 08/06/2013 by kunzelman

If you’re up on your Critical Riff Raff Studies, you know that there is a now-infamous interview where a Hot 97 producer took Riff to task about embodying hip hop stereotypes as a white man. I wrote a bit about … Continue reading →

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Parisi on Incomputable Algorithms

Posted on 08/05/2013 by kunzelman

Incomputable algorithms are not exceptional probabilities, marking, for instance, the moment at which programming breaks down. On the contrary, incomputable probabilities are known probabilities that point toward a new conception of rule. The latter is exposed to a certain indeterminate … Continue reading →

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Released: Laika

Posted on 08/02/2013 by kunzelman

For some reason I believed that I had made a post about this already, but apparently I haven’t. A few weeks ago, deep in the development of Way Too Scary Game, I took an afternoon to make a Laika.  It comes … Continue reading →

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A Still From Every Audience Reaction Shot In Paola Antonelli’s TEDSalon NY2013 Talk “Why I Brought Pac-Man To MoMA”

Posted on 08/01/2013 by kunzelman
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