On December 2nd, I interviewed Rainforest Scully-Blaker, an MA student in Media Studies. Last year, he worked on a project at Concordia’s MLAB that investigated communal play and spectatorship. Half of the experiment was conducted in a couch co-op (two players sitting next to each other sharing a controller) and the other half of the experiment Read More
Reading Brand’s 1987 account of artificial intelligence research at the MIT Media Lab, I was struck by its laughably ambitious projects: “We want to be able to type in a Shakespeare play and have the computer act it out for us automatically” (Zeltzer, Brand 112). It’s a goal about as fantastically distant from the current Read More
The gif is ubiquitous. And it’s a mess. A relic from the dial-up web, it was one of the first image formats on the web. It’s become an essential part of the language of online communication, and it’s become a form of art it own right, it’s even bleeding into other forms of media (see PBS Idea’s Read More