playFull playMe
jonCates
# playFull playMe
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# [I/O] SYSTEM:
# IN:
Input systems: readings, screenings + [aesthetic/technosocial/conceptual/art-historical] skills
+ toolSets to be determined + distributed by jonCates Assistant Professor in the department of
Film, Video and New Media.
# OUT:
Output systems: 01 completed New Media work that functions as a game in a fully realized state as to be defined by the terms + parameters set by the participants. standard of completion to be arbitrated by particpants.
# REFERENCE
Reference signals are intended to help articulate the basis + influences which impact ([computer/video]) game-art culture as a [concept/construct], [art-as-game/game-as-art] as a category of artmaking + playFull, playMe as a course.
# GAME.DEV:
we will be [discussing/developing] [art-as-game/game-as-art] in an art hystorical framework in relation to {screen|time|code}-based experimental media art (from Cinema + Film Art to Video Art + Digital Art) + as social technological concept/construct.
# PLAY:
playFull, playMe's [art-as-game/game-as-art] will be disscussed in relation to game theory + New Media art cultures.
# I/0:
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# INPUT:
students will be expected to use [technologies/systems] which are [demonstrated/discussed] in
class. these [technologies/systems] will incl various forms of game developmentusing ActionScript + Flash, level [+/or] sprite editing, Open Source game engines, etc....
# OUTPUT
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# CHALLENGE
students will take an existing rule set, i.e. the rules of any given game + then re{write|code} those rules so as to change game play + challenge the power dynamics.
# OUTPUT
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# MINI GAME
students will individually or collaboratively develop a MINI GAME within the framework
of the concerns, concepts + systems presented in playFull playMe.
# EXCLUDE:
there will not be any tests or any assigned technical excercises.
# EVALUATE:
we will critique all student projects twice (as a class) + i will address projects + students
individually throughout the semester.
# PARAMETERS
class will meet every MON from 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 PM, with a one-hour break for nutrients, with
the exception of Graduate Critique Week.
attendance + punctuality are required. 3 absences == NO CREDIT. 2 lates == 1 absence.
# GRAPH:
classTime will be divided in the following manner:
90% Input
10% Output
Inputs will be divided in the following manner:
30% techno-social skillset development
30% readings + discussions
30% screenings of relevent works
10% critiques of student projects
# INPUT
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# READING:
the 01 required reading for playFull playMe is:
title: selectparks
dvr: selectparks (Julian Oliver, Rebecca Cannon, Chad Chatterton, Andrea Blundell, etc...)
uri: http://www.selectparks.net
# RUN:
//begin classTimes
// cT# 00:
//
// DISC
"hello", "ntro", "nfo", "bckgrd", "courseware", "CHALLENGE"
// READ
// cT# 01:
//
// title:
title: War Games
dvr: Donald Richie
date: 1962
title: Prisoners' Dilemma
title: Rethinking Wargames
dvr: Ruth Catlow
date: 2003
uri: http://www.low-fi.org.uk/rethinkingwargames
// READ {suggested|connected} NFO:
title: “Rethinking Wargames”: A Chance to Remaster Conflict
dvr: Ruth Catlow + Molly Hankwitz
date: 2004
uri: http://www.fibreculture.org/myspinach/fibreculture/2004-September/004033.html
// DEV:
CHALLENGE
// cT# 02:
//
// title:
CHALLENGE
// cT# 03:
//
// PLAY:
title: favorite games
dvr: var
date: var
uri: var
title: seizurestick
dvr: Angry Monkey
date: 1998 ?
uri: http://www.angrymonkey.com/site01/see_no_evil/see_f-cd1.html
// DEV:
Flash + ActionScript
MINI GAME
// cT# 04:
//
// PLAY:
title Vagamundo
dvr: Ricardo Miranda Zuñiga
date: 2002
uri: http://www.ambriente.com/cart
title: PainStation
dvr: //////////fur//// (Roman Kirschner, Volker Morawe + Tilman Reiff)
date: 2001 - 2004
uri: http://www.painstation.de
title: Tekken Torture
dvr: Eddo Stern, Mark Allen + C-Level
date: 2001 - 2004
uri: http://www.c-level.cc/tekken1.html
title: Tropical America
dvr: OnRamp Arts
date: 2002
uri: http://www.tropicalamerica.com
// DEV:
Flash + ActionScript
MINI GAME
// cT# 05:
//
// PLAY:
title: Spacewar (emulation)
dvr: Martin Graetz, Stephen Russell, Wayne Wiitanen, Peter Samson, Dan Edwards, Alan Kotok, Steve Piner + Robert A Saunders
date: 1961 - 1962
uri: http://lcs.www.media.mit.edu/groups/el/projects/spacewar
title: net.art wars
dvr: Peter Luining
date: 2004
uri: http://www.ctrlaltdel.org/naw.html
title: "Xyzzy" Iraqi Invasion: A Text Misadventure
dvr: Matthew Baldwin
date: 2006.01.17
uri: http://www.defectiveyeti.com/archives/001561.html
// DISC:
hystory as [game/found object]
// DEV:
Flash + ActionScript
MINI GAME
// cT# 06:
//
// PLAY:
title: My Boyfriend Came Back From the War
dvr: JODI
date: 2001
uri: http://myboyfriendcamebackfromth.ewar.ru
title: BioTek Kitchen
dvr: Josephine Starrs + Leon Cmielowski
date: 1999
uri: http://lx.sysx.org/biotek
title: Museum Meltdown
dvr: Palle Torsson Tobias Bernstrup
date: 1996 - 1999
uri: http://www.bernstrup.com/meltdown/main.html
title: Escape From Woomera
dvr: Kate Wild, Stephen Honegger, Ian Malcom, Andrea Blundell, Julian Oliver, Justin Halliday, Matt Harrigan, Darren Taylor + Chris Markwart
date: 2003 - 2006
uri: http://www.escapefromwoomera.org
// DEV {suggested|connected} SYS:
title: Half Life 2
dvr: VALVE
date: 2005
uri: http://half-life2.com
title: Crystal Space 3D
dvr: Jorrit Tyberghein + the Crystal Space community
date: 1997 - 2006
uri: http://www.crystalspace3d.org
title: Blender
dvr: Ton Roosendaal, The Blender Foundation + the Blender community
date: 1998 - 2006
uri: http://www.blender3d.com
// DEV:
MINI GAME
// cT# 07:
//
// PLAY:
MINI GAME
// cT# 08:
//
// PLAY:
title: [domestic]
dvr: Mary Flanagan
date: 2003
uri: http://maryflanagan.com/domestic
title: The Intruder
dvr: Natalie Bookchin
date: 1998 - 1999
uri: http://www.calarts.edu/~bookchin/intruder
title: Trigger Happy
dvr: Thompson + Craighead
date: 1998
uri: http://www.dot-store.com
// DEV:
MINI GAME
// READ {suggested|connected} NFO:
title: Narrative, Interactivity, Play, + Games
dvr: Eric Zimmerman
date: 2004
uri: http://www.electronicbookreview.com/v3/servlet/ebr?essay_id=zimmerman&command=view_essay
// cT# 09:
//
// PLAY:
title: Child as Audience + Child as Participant (Where Technology and Anarchy Fuck)
dvr: The Carbon Defense League, Critical Art Ensemble + Creation as Crucifixion
date: 1999 - 2001
uri: http://www.carbondefense.org/projects_past.html
title: gameboy_ultraF_uk
dvr: Corby + Baily
date: 2001 - 2002
uri: http://www.reconnoitre.net/rec_main/docs/gb.htm
// DISC:
software, hardware, system + platform specificity
// DEV:
Emulators, ROMs, EPROM + hardware hacking
MINI GAME
// cT# 10:
//
// PLAY:
title: Super Mario Clouds
dvr: Cory Archangel
date: 2003
uri: http://www.beigerecords.com/cory/21c/21c.html
// DEV:
Emulators, ROMs, EPROM + hardware hacking
MINI GAME
// cT# 11:
//
// PLAY:
title: Sissyfight
dvr: GameLab (Eric Zimmerman, Peter Lee, Katie Salen, Lauri Berritta, Ranjit Bhatnagar, Naomi Clark, Tim Conkling, Nicholas Fortugno, Catherine Herdlick, Yun Kyung Huh, Dauna Jeong, Peter Seung-Taek Lee, Carolina Moya, Peter Nicolai, Seok Min Oh, Kyron Ramsey, Mattia Romeo, YunHo Seo, Michael Sweet, AudioBrain, Khoeun Tep, Greg Trefry, Catherine Yoo + Jacqueline Yue)
date: 2000
uri: http://sissyfight.com
title: Antiwar Game
dvr: Josh On
date: 2001
uri: http://www.antiwargame.org
title: Madrid
dvr: newsgaming (Gonzalo Frasca, Sofía Battegazzore, Nicolás Olhaberry, Pepe Infantozzi, Fabián Rodriguez + Federico Balbi)
date: 2004
uri: http://www.newsgaming.com
// DEV:
Flash + ActionScript
MINI GAME
// cT# 12:
//
inclassStudio
// cT# 13:
//
// PLAY:
MINI GAME
// cT# 14:
//
// PLAY:
MINI GAME
//end classTimes
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