Form, Culture and Video Game Criticism
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michael on 2004/02/11:
„For the past 6 years he has written about video games for the Denver Post. He currently teaches critical video game theory and the history of digital media for the University of Colorado, Denver and maintains the critical game theory site www.buzzcut.com. His current research area deals with the creation and articulation of a vocabulary of critical terms specific to the discourse of video game aesthetics.“
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„The speaker schedule for Form, Culture, & Video Game Criticism, a one day conference being held at Princeton on March 6th, has been announced. Looks like a good lineup, and includes our own Nick Montfort as well as frequent GTxA commentor Dennis Jerz. I couldn't find a website with the conference schedule, so I include the full program below.“http://grandtextauto.gatech.edu/archives/ 2004_02.html#000235 - Cached
Found at a page of michael, posted on 2004/02/11
„Save yourself the price of admission to GDC — a new "Legends of the Game Industry" Speaker Series is being hosted by The Art Institute of California – San Francisco. The first talk in the series, by Will Wright, will be held at 7pm on Feb 25, free and open to all Bay Area students, game industry professionals and the general public. (via Gamasutra)“http://grandtextauto.gatech.edu/archives/ 000236.html - Cached
Found at a page of andrew, posted on 2004/02/11
„Like its ideological opposite, Mao Zedong’s Little Red Book, it seems to be a case where, indeed, the merger of content and form has created an icon. At Princeton, where it is on view for the first time ever as part of a Kennan exhibition that runs through April 18, it sits in a custom-made, climate-controlled 18-foot glass case. I confess I was disappointed that it wasn’t printed on a single roll (like that other icon of postwar American literature, the original manuscript of Jack Kerouac's On The Road ), but in all its Courier-besotted glory (now disavowed , alas), it has its own unique power.“http://www.designobserver.com/archives/ 000113.html - Cached
„Criticism may have no discernible beginning, but it does have a history, and this book is dedicated to tracing how the tradition of Western talk about stories, songs, and plays was crucially changed in Greece between the end of the sixth and the fourth century B.C.E. In speaking of this development as "the origins of criticism," I mean to highlight the emergence, within the manifold activities that might be called criticism, of a specific set of presuppositions about the nature of poetic language and ways of analyzing it that continues to shape our approaches to literature. Acknowledging that Greek song culture has continuities that reach into prehistory, we may still take notice when early statements about poetry are not assimilable to classical norms and when, and under what circumstances, these norms are first attested.2 One sign of the success of classical criticism is that its cornerstones--its admiration for works that marry style to content, that exhibit harmony, proportion, and appropriate ornament in effecting a special emotional and cognitive response in the audience--may seem to be valid in all periods.3 Histories of Greek criticism have tended, partly because of the limited evidence available, but partly, too, because of the overwhelming influence of the developed classical paradigm, to emphasize early texts that adumbrate this essentially rhetorical approach to poetry as a verbal artifact.4 Classicizing criticism's regard for poetic form, after all, held out the promise of a perfect work of art, a formal harmony whose appreciation is independent of time and place, of party or creed.“http://pup.princeton.edu/chapters/i7301.html - Cached
„Translation Article: Reflections on culture, fluency and the native speaker’s head prompted by the LDELC“http://www.translationdirectory.com/ article16.htm - Cached
„Briefly, I go on to suggest that close attention to the social context and performance of some "spoken word" poetry can uncover political strategies and choices worth considering alongside the radical politics of form often pitted against "identity politics."“http://english.rutgers.edu/theform.htm - Cached
„"Annotated Bibliography of Interactive Fiction Scholarship (Including Fan-produced Criticism and Theory)," Text/Technology (2001) (published online in advance of a print issue scheduled for 2002) [full text: ]“http://jerz.setonhill.edu/resources/about/ jerz-cv.htm - Cached
„Speaker Gennadi Seleznev of the State Duma met with spokesmen of the American-Russian Business Council in Washington, D.C., last night within an official visit of Russia's lower parliamentary house delegates.“http://english.pravda.ru/usa/2002/05/03/ 28189.html - Cached
„His stinging comment on the show - "hybrid in form and forced in content, belonging to no vital tradition, responding to no one's need" - reminded me of, well, 99% of popular culture in America today. If artists of other countries are fed our schlock of pop culture on a daily basis, through advertisements and television programs and whatnot, then I'm not surprised that what they "churned" back carried the intellectual weight of marshmallow Peeps.“http://www.artnotes.org/mt/weblog/archives/ cat_arts_criticism.html - Cached
„I drove from central North Carolina home to Denver one spring, and from North Carolina to northern Michigan one summer; took the family from Atlanta to Denver last summer; have made the trip from Atlanta to DC many times, and from Atlanta to my wife’s family’s beach house south of Mobile, Alabama many times as well.“http://cellasreview.blogspot.com/ 2003_09_01_cellasreview_archive.html - Cached
„He has written a significant, troubling book which makes me question my deep- rooted assumptions about criminality,'low' and'high' culture, and America itself." Irving Malin, American Literature "Franklin's study has so many applications and arguments that it is difficult to place it in one category. It is literary criticism; it is a note from the underground; it is literary history and a pungent political treatise." Terence Ripmaster, Negro History Bulletin "Franklin's study clearly breaks new ground--organizing and interpreting for us major themes and issues in what is, indeed, a gigantic field of writing. A distinct richness flows through The Victim as Criminal and Artist, and one cannot help thanking H.“http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~hbf/reviews.html - Cached
„In these issues, his main opponents -- such as Stanislav Grof, Michael Washburn and a few others -- had written long articles and Wilber had answered these points of criticism one by one, so that for the first time something of a true dialogue on transpersonal matters was taking shape. The fact that Wilber would not be present at the conference was no surprise to me, for this had been his policy during the last twenty years. But wouldn't he be curious about what was said there about his person and his work?“http://www.khandro.com/kenwilber/ visser0197.html - Cached
„Last month, the British MedicalAssociation issued a first-round set of guidelines for onlinemedical information; British experts estimate 25 percent of onlinemedical information is inaccurate. Some doctors and surgeons alsoclaim they are seeing a mixed effect from online medicalinformation. In some cases, online medical information has helpedpatients cope with illnesses identified by their doctor, while inothers, Web surfing has brought patients into doctors' officesasking for drugs they know nothing about.(New Zealand Herald Online, 28 April 2001)“http://www.criticism.com/md/cultnews.html - Cached
„If, following Montfort, we take interactive fiction to be like removing the stripper's clothes ourselves, and puzzles to be like a really tricky bra clasp or something, we find that IF offers the added frustration of putting the responsibility for advancing the narrative on the player... but the key thing is that, again, relieving anticipation is only an ancillary pleasure. The primary pleasure is still the actual text itself.“http://adamcadre.ac/calendar/10904.html - Cached
„Here is another link to another school's scholarship page which has helpful information on scholarships outside of USC:“http://interactive.usc.edu/archives/ 2004_01.html - Cached
„Luckily, the folks at MIT think otherwise, and their latest edition to the incredible shelf of books crossing the nexus between art, science and language – genuine encyclopedias such as Steve McCaffery and Jed Rasula’s Imagining Language and Stephen Wilson’s Information Arts – is a stunner, perhaps the most convincing argument for this handsomely, even lavishly, designed and edited series so far. A search of MIT’s online catalogue produces a welter of books that have come out in the past decade including in their titles the words “information” (60 at least), “digital, “new media” (including Lev Manovich’s seminal The Language of New Media ) and “hypertext,” but it would be hard to imagine any of these volumes being as complete or as energetically, even giddily, edited. The delight of brainy duo Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort — their other collaborations liberally speckle net.art space — comes through not just in the longish preambles to each of the book’s fifty-four chapters and the reams of text on the CD itself, but in every additional 8-bit Atari game, forgotten manifesto, “Aristotelian” comic strip, and chunky piece of Deleuze and Guattari they found a way to cram into the collection.“http://www.arras.net/weblog/ cat_review.html#000855 - Cached
Found at a page of Brian Stefans, posted on 2004/01/12
„More than any other art form, even painting at the height of its ‘realist’ phase, the novel is tied to the rise of the bourgeois subject. It is for this very reason that fiction writing has tended to lag behind the other arts, and novels are nearly always ascribed to single authors. Indeed, that past master of bourgeois reaction, George Orwell, made books no longer being written by individuals one of the great horrors of his risible dystopia, 1984.“http://www.arras.net/weblog/2003_06.html - Cached
„With February now here, just a reminder that we’re asking visitors to the site to share, amongst other things, their most memorable Chappo concert, favourite Shortlist line-up (actual), songs you would like to have heard Chappo cover and a poll to determine the Guestbookers favourite songs that we would most like Chappo to perform on the Silver Anniversary Tour 2004. Simply name your favourite 6 Chappo (not Family nor Streetwalkers) live songs, list them in order 1 to 6 and we’ll allocate 6pts for number 1, 5 pts for 2, 4pts for 3, etc. and see what develops.“http://www.rogerchapman.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ guestlog0204.htm - Cached
„The five-date Commonwealth tour will kick off in London’s Manchester Bridgewater followed by Leicester De Montfort Hall, Bristol Colston Hall, London Royal Festival, and ends in grand style at the Brighton Dome. The London tour will be followed by another in Germany and Holland.“http://www.sarockdigest.com/archives/ issue_146.html - Cached
„Middle Eastern Dance Involvement: Performer, Teacher, Event Sponsor, Troupe Director (Rocky Mountain Belly Dance Company)“http://www.shira.net/dir-us-coct.htm - Cached
„What about our experience in media?2001Community Journalism Teacher at Globeville Journalism Academy, in Denver.1999 - 2001Community Journalism Teacher Cole Beacon Neighborhood Center, Denver, COTeaches journalism to minority teenagers, including PSAs production.1999 - PresentDenver Correspondent Radio SR Noticias and Periodico Siglo 21, Lawrence, MAWeekly live reports about news of the Rocky Mountain region.1998 - PresentBroncos announcer, KBNO 1220 (1998) and KMXA 1090 (1999), Denver, CO.1997 - PresentNews Anchor and Reporter MetroNetworks, Denver, COResponsible for news, weather and traffic reports for the two largest Hispanic radio stations in Denver, KMXA 1090 AM and KJMN 92.1 FM.1997 - PresentIndependent consultant (correspondent) for EFE News Agency, the official news agency of Spain. (USA Headquarters in Washington DC).Covers events of local, national and international interest.1997 - 1999Teacher / Translator, Five Points Media Center Media Teen Workshop, Denver, CO. Translation and teaching of media topics.1996 - PresentContributing Writer and Translator - La Voz Hispana de Colorado, Denver, COPerformes all editorial duties, including translation, editing and reporting.1996 - 1999Participated as special guest in 15 one hour programs (Spanish),KRMT Channel 41, Denver, CO.March - Sept.“http://www.newsandservices.com/ whatabourexi.html - Cached
„"The developer will have to agree to legally inform buyers; however, I don't think that will show up on their title. I think this compromise will protect the airport, yet make it more acceptable to the homeowners." Brown said he plans to bring the proposal to a vote at a meeting of the Authority Board later this month.The article goes on to say it's not clear how much relief Brown's proposal will bring to residents in the area. Carolyn Riedl, who lives near Superstition Springs, says disclosure on the title will not have little effect unless Williams scales back its plans to become a commercial reliever airport for Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.“http://www.nonoise.org/news/1999/feb28.htm - Cached
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