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13 Apr

Reaching to the crowds

Reaching to the crowds

Crowd-sourced game development: The next big thing?

By Alex Hayter
Filed under: Pop Culture, Video Games
Tags: Art, bits, blogging, chris anderson, development, game, gaming, hand eye society, homebrew, indie, online, video games, wired
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10 Jan

Gender Benders

Gender Benders

Why is gender bending not a part of Canadian popular culture?

By Alex Hayter
Filed under: Art, Human Rights, Pop Culture
Tags: androgyny, Art, bowie, gender, gender bending, indie, information, labels, narrative, online, prejudice, society
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13 Nov

All play, no work: Gamercamp v 1.0

All play, no work: Gamercamp v 1.0

Why you should send the kids to Gamercamp: an interview with co-organizer Mark Rabo.

By Alex Hayter
Filed under: Art, Pop Culture, Technology, Video Games
Tags: Art, fiction, Gamercamp, gaming, hand eye society, IGDA, information, interactive, Internet, mario, Mark Rabo, online, programming, sound, Toronto, video games
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17 Oct

The art of awe

The art of awe

Cube mosaics; giant one-colour paintings; dusty attic furniture: modern art’s got a bad rep. What’s the solution?

By Alex Hayter
Filed under: Art, Pop Culture, Technology
Tags: Art, beuys, cubism, dali, deininger, halley, indie, information, modern art, online, painting, photography, picasso, pop, pop art, sculpture, trash art, van Doesburg, willard
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13 Oct

Brit-tunes

Brit-tunes

The Agitator, Mumford and Sons, and Alan Pownall. Pretentious artsy crap enjoyed only by sewing enthusiasts, or the next big things in British music? You decide.

By Alex Hayter
Filed under: Music
Tags: Alan Pownall, Art, brit-tunes, indie, indie music, Internet, london, Mumford and Sons, Music, music week, online, Polaris, royal wood, The Agitator
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12 Oct

Dear sports fans: Get the fuck off my lawn.

Dear sports fans: Get the fuck off my lawn.

Why sports fans and gaming don’t mix.

By Alex Hayter
Filed under: Art, Pop Culture, Video Games
Tags: Art, console war, gaming, graphics, information, madden, soulja boy, sports, sports fans, subjectivity, video games, xbox
Comments: 3

16 Sep

Faith in fantasy

Faith in fantasy

Psychological fantasy films and the path to the unreal in art.

By Alex Hayter
Filed under: Art, Literature, Movies, Music, Pop Culture, Video Games
Tags: Art, beatles, belief, faith, fantasy, imagination, mmog, narrative, pan's labyrinth, sci-fi, subjectivity, text, the orphanage, unreal, world of warcraft
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12 Sep

The Beatles: Rock Band as historiographic metafiction

The Beatles: Rock Band as historiographic metafiction

Harmonix’s latest interactive music game offers a heavily stylized retelling of a band’s history – but is it any less valuable than any other “real” historical reference?

By Alex Hayter
Filed under: Art, Literature, Video Games
Tags: Art, fiction, Games, Harmonix, historiographic metafiction, history, information, narrative, Rock Band, subjectivity, the beatles, video games
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31 Aug

Literacy 2.0

Literacy 2.0

The Internet is no time waster – it’s turning youth into a literate legion.

By Alex Hayter
Filed under: Journalism, Literature, Pop Culture, Technology
Tags: Art, information, Internet, literacy, lunsford, social media, society eye, stanford study, the new literacy, Thompson, Twitter, youth
Comments: 1

10 Aug

Bowling with a broken ball

Bowling with a broken ball

Art and Science face off in a bowling match for the ages. So it begins.

By Alex Hayter
Filed under: Art, Literature, Movies, Music, Video Games
Tags: Art, bowling, brooks, distorted, eye, hamlet, indirections, language, paradox, perception, poetry, science, shakespeare
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04 Aug

Freaking the familiar

Freaking the familiar

Put on your art goggles. See things stranger.

By Alex Hayter
Filed under: Art
Tags: Art, heterosexuality, kholstomer, monogamy, schklovsky, social change, society, tolstoy, war
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