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Machinima is always a kind of performance. To make that point, I often refer back to great machinima performance examples such as Chris Burke’s This Spartan Life (which finally saw episode 7 released in April ). His latest endeavor continues this approach on using game worlds as virtual stages at live events. But now the [...]

Over the last term, Ali Mazalek’s, Claudia Rebola’s and my own class here at Georgia Tech worked toward a final shared piece involving digital puppetry. After some test runs, the resulting “Pictures at an Exhibition”  performance will be one short segment in the Experimental Puppetry show at the Center for Puppetry Arts. May 18-22 2011.

Jeffrey Jacobson from PublicVR and a whole team of animators, experts, and coders (cudos to Friedrich Kirschner) have wrapped up the Egyptian Oracle project and it officially premiered at the Boston Cyberarts Festival. The project will be installed from June 13th at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. The project was funded by the NEA and [...]

At DiGRA 2007 I presented Andrew Dekker’s honor thesis on biofeedback that changed the atmosphere of a game in real-time. Unfortunately I did not have a full demo video and Michael has often reminded me of this. But last week Andrew reconnected the Wild Divine sensors et al to Ravenholm a Half Life 2 zombie [...]

A small plug that the live-animation/theatre production I was working on for the last 4 months – VERION – is premiering tonight in Trondheim, Norway. It’s a 75 minute show. As it is in norwegian, it’s a bit tough for me to explain what exactly is going on – but it’s a sci-fi piece about [...]