Media Systems Workshop: Day 2

Submitted by robin on Wed, 08/29/2012 - 9:04am

Day two brought a number of amazing talks, inspirational conversations, and most importantly, lots of opportunities to make meaningful connections. Speakers included Anne Balsamo, Fox Harrell, Bill Gaver, Michael Mateas, Ken Perlin, and Chad Greene. Participants also got to view and play demos, visit the Seymour Center, and have a little fun at the boardwalk and arcade.

Seymour Center reception

Some Twitter highlights from Day 2. We even brought some outside participants into the conversation, which is fantastic!

Anne Balsamo: take culture seriously as a point of departure in technological design

"The design process is one of emergence" (Bill Gaver) A real challenge for funders, admins, etc. when it come to support

Fox Harrell's fascinating game exploring "microaggression"--my new favorite word.

fantastically inspirational talk on design-as-research by Bill Gaver

humanities as source for novel media experiences and also for computational systems as a way of doing theory

"Software studies - reading software as if someone wrote it."

Hey , you can try Game-O-Matic yourselves at

enchantingly demo-ing Fish tales f

I’m not sure, but I think Ken Perlin has invented Yelp for novels.

So I finally figured out what the hash is all about. What about curriculum connections?

Chaim Gingold has made an amazing simulation-rich earth science textbook at UCSC. This could change A LOT about science ed.

Fourth highest score on Battle Zone. I believe my work here is done.

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