Today Nintendo had a special conference for the launch of the 3DS

A short video on how the camera maps the users movements and facial expressions.

Yesterday at the Consumer Electronics Show Microsoft announced a new feature coming to the XBox Live service.

2 weeks late because of the snow the mystery game has turned out to be Start The Party, I will post later to write about how I got on with it.

I finally bit the bullet and ordered a Playstation Move Starter Kit, comes with a free ‘mystery’ game. It’ll be good to get some hands on time with the Move to see how it feels.

When we were thinking of how to incorporate text into our project I thought about what identity actually is. I found it to be a feeling, a thought process. Who you consider yourself to be and who you think you are. People think in words to express how they feel, like poetry or song. Using our fragmented theme I was reminded of some work I’d seen before doing my BA with a module on Virtual Space. Thomas Broome Matt Siber  [ Read More ]

I took loads of notes (14 pages worth to be precise)

How we interpret the world

Questions for interview

• Do you use social networks and what ones? (intro question, expected answer of yes to continue)
• Why?
• How often do you check your profile?
• What do you think your profile says about you?
• What does Identity means to you?

The above questions we discussed for interviewing last week.

After having a brainstorming session with Candy and Yoora after class today it got me thinking on the walk to the bus stop about logo designs. We were talking about how people interact through email/text/instant messaging and it made me think about leetspeak, how people on the internet in certain forums use numbers to replace letters and make words with them to talk to one another. Here are a few design’s I came up with using the word ‘Identity’ -  [ Read More ]

Massive thought dump today! Advert for the Windows 7 phone “It’s time for a phone to save us from our phones” I like the theme of humanity missing life as it passes them buy as they are too preoccupied in themselves, in keeping up with social needs. Man Vs Machine. Where does the machine end and the human begin? Dependency. My friend did a project using Augmented Reality for his dissertation last year so I was already pretty interested in  [ Read More ]

Listening to the latest Gamespy Debriefings podcast on my way to uni this morning the hosts happen upon a tangent discussion of social media in the ‘Reader Mail’ section of their podcast. It’s become common place for listeners to email in with love life troubles. ‘How do I talk to this girl?’ ‘I like this girl but what should I do?’ much adding to the basement dwelling gamer stereotype of guys who play computer game’s and can’t talk to girls.  [ Read More ]

Here is a list of the keywords I wrote down today in class, theme’s and topics I wish to explore through interactive art.

• Philosophy
• Behaviour
• Sound
• Striving
• Dialogue
• Commentary
• Installation
• Interactive Space with Art
• Movement
• Touch
• Sensual
• Message
• Impactful
• User Interaction
• Felt
• Emotion