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Final Projects

Posted in April 29th, 2008

This is an open thread. If you would like to share your final project, you can post a link here.

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Super Columbine Massacre RPG!

Posted in April 22nd, 2008

For out last class we will be discussing Super Columbine Massacre RPG!. You can download the game from the game’s main site. For background information you can read the entry on Wikipedia. You should also spend some time reading the website, particularly the press room and the artist’s statement. (The game only runs on a [...]

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Stealing Cars

Posted in April 15th, 2008

Monday we will discuss Grand Theft Auto. As I indicated in class you should play for roughly six hours, enough time for you to understand how the game works. (Feel free to play more, as it can only help, and heck you get to call it homework.) If you are unfamiliar with the GTA series [...]

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First Person for Monday

Posted in April 8th, 2008

On Monday we will be discussing First Person. You should read the essays (and accompanying responses) by Murray, Eskelinen, Moulthrop, Jenkins, Zimmerman, and Douglas & Hargadon. Post your comments/thoughts/rumminations below.

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Your Mother is a Computer

Posted in April 2nd, 2008

No this is not a “your momma” joke. For Monday read The Prologue, Parts I & III of Katherine N. Hayles My Mother was a Computer. Leave your comments/questions below. If you send me an email after Thursday I can respond with feedback from your final projects as my review of them will be done [...]

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What This Class is About

"the technical structure of the archiving archive also determines the structure of the archivable content . . . .The archivization produces as much as it records the event." -Derrida, Archive Fever