Wednesday Jul 7, 2010
The London Psychogeophysics Summit
Furtherfield gallery are hosting the London Psychogeophysics Summit in August.
Tuesday Jun 29, 2010
Another simulation of everything
Interesting blog by Gobion Rowlands about the FuturICT proposal for "a techno-socio-economic-ecological knowledge accelerator Global-Scale Simulation of Socio-Economic-Environmental Systems?"
Sunday Jun 6, 2010
What happened to Second Life?
A posting in Second Life, a Second Chance? blog helps me understand why I seem to hear so much less about SL these days.
Friday Oct 2, 2009
A story for which the world is not yet prepared.
University resilience is not as good as we thought: Florida has removed from its web-site a disaster response exercise to meet a zombie invasion.
Saturday Aug 1, 2009
World Builder
“World Builder”, a very moving short film by Bruce Branit, can be seen on YouTube.
Sunday Apr 20, 2008
The limits and possibilities of play.
Thanks to Networked Performance for some serious thoughts about the nature of play: whether it gives rise to a different psychological state, and how this might be used to transform lives through artistic practice, or misused to market Microsoft products. These ideas might apply to all 'games' and many types of simulation.
Monday Mar 17, 2008
Open Knowledge Conference 2008
Went to the Open Knowledge Conference on Saturday. A mixed bag but some very stimulating ideas. There is more information available than you'd think: the problem remains how to use it.
Wednesday Jun 6, 2007
Environment XML
A new digital art project is based on an interesting platform for re-purposable data.
Sunday Aug 27, 2006
London cabbies' brains.
Can't resist quoting this piece from Retrospectacle. The size and shape of the brains of London taxi drivers who have done 'the knowledge' is significantly different from others.
Monday Aug 14, 2006
Using simulation to cure PTSD
Wired and Business Week both report that the US military are using simulators to help PTSD victims.
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