PlayTime! on 4th October 2006: workshops, presentations and space-age play
September 29th, 2006XPT are heavily involved in a day of serious and not-so serious digital play on October 4th 2006, part of the London Games Festival Fringe.
The event takes place at 01zero-one, Hopkins Street, Soho, London W1F 0HS (off Peter Street) and is free of charge, as long as you pre-register by mailing insync [at] 01zero-one [dot] co [dot] uk
Throughout the day there will be opportunities to learn about how web and mobile technologies are changing the way people can participate in playful experiences - from posting a simple image into a shared moblog, right through to losing yourself in an augmented reality game.
Confirmed speakers include Pat Kane, author of ‘The Play Ethic’, Stuart Nolan, Serious Play Lego expert and magician, Jamie Cason of BBC Interactive, and digital writer and poet Gavin Stewart - plus leading players from digital innovators such as Mind Candy, Future Platforms, Rabbit and XPT.
Throughout the day, event curator Tim Wright will also be developing a new collaborative narrative project using text, image and performance contributions from attendees to help him in his mission to - one day - play golf on the moon with David Bowie.
November 22nd, 2006 at 10:28 am
[…] A few weeks on, I’m finally getting around to uploading my slides from my PlayTime presentation, Playing with Pictures (it’s a 20MB+ PDF file, exported from Keynote). I was intending to annotate these so that they’d make more sense to someone who weren’t at my session, but I’m not sure when, if ever, I’ll do this. This gist of it however was this: Photo manipulation has always had a bit of a bad name, and even today we’re still worried that adding, removing or modifying parts of a photographic image detract from photography’s perceived ability to show us the truth. But you could argue that these techniques - and especially montage/manipulation (cf. the history of collage, Eisenstein etc, blah blah) - allow us to see other, new truths (all that nonsense about MegaWords was a joke about quantifying this). And the things you need, stock imagery, skills, tools etc. are becoming more available and affordable all the time: see all the examples of the web services* I mentioned. So we’re going to see a lot more of it, especially with the YouTube generation, and it’s also something that we (XPT and everyone else) are going to continue to have a lot of fun with… […]