Agonistics: A Language Game
Join us for an evening with software designer and media theorist Warren Sack.
>Thursday, October 14, 7pm
THE THING
601 West 26th Street
New York, New York 10001
Tel: 212-937 0443
Email: [email protected]
(organized by the Institute for Distributed Creativity
in collaboration with The Thing, NYC)
Agonistics: A Language Game
The images and actions used as metaphors by Chantal Mouffe and other theorists of "agonistic democracy" can be instantiated as interactive, graphical objects and dynamics. This "literal" instantiation will then be a computer game that can played by posting messages to a public, online discussion forum. I am currently in the middle of implementing the game and would like to present what I have and get comments, critical feedback, and suggestions from those who come to the talk. The proposal for the game can be found
here
bio: Warren Sack is a software designer and media theorist whose work explores theories and designs for online public space and public discussion. Before joining the faculty at the University of California, Santa Cruz in the Film & Digital Media Department, Warren was an assistant professor at UC Berkeley, a research scientist at the MIT Media Laboratory, and a research collaborator in the Interrogative Design Group at the MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies. He earned a B.A. from Yale College and an S.M. and Ph.D. from the MIT Media Laboratory.
He was recently awarded a 2004 Rhizome Net Art Commission by
Rhizome.org at the New Museum and (with Sawad Brooks) a 2002 Emerging
Artists/Emerging Medium 3: Net-Art Commission awarded by the Walker Art
Center and the Jerome Foundation.
He is a visiting scholar at Columbia
University for the fall of 2004.
More information about his current
work can be found at this website: http://people.ucsc.edu/~wsack
|
|
Jump to Today |
