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I-CHATS, SKYPE TALKS, WALKTROUGHS
In this first phase we asked Breaking the Game participants to send in proposals for what they would like to do within the context of an online symposium, to articulate a framework, or a perspective about their work in relationship to the three themes Hybridity, Overclocking the City, and The Virtual as Interface to Self and Society. We posted those to Breaking the Game website. Immediately we began conducting spontatneous and exploratory online conversations which we recorded using Skype (internet telephone software) and iChat (video conferencing software). In some instances we visited 3D worlds together to discuss work while maintaining audio links to one another. We posted these encounters below.
As a first phase we will map out a loose terrain of overlapping ideas, interests, and practices, while creating a network for ongoing discussion about our specific projects.
Please note that the following movies are not edited yet. Some movies and skype conversations are still being processed and will be available soon. Out of these mutual discussions we will hone in on more specific issues and begin to define Breaking the Game's next stage.
*For optimal viewing you must have access to broadband and the latest version of QuickTime (version 7.0.4).
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Introductory I-chat conversation with Jerry Paffendorf
Overclocking the City
Participants: Jerry Paffendorf, Wayne Ashley, Thomas Soetens, Kora Van den Bulcke
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Introductory I-Chat conversation with Brian House
Hybridity
Participants: Brian House, Wayne Ashley, Thomas Soetens, Kora Van den Bulcke
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Walkthrough in Second Life with Jerry Paffendorf
Skype conversation and simultaneous walkthrough with Jerry Paffendorf to Sheep Island in Second Life. Jerry talks about the Electric Sheep Company, a small consulting group that seeks to help organizations find ways to use Second Life to realize their business, educational, and marketing goals. While located physically in Washington D.C., the company has a 3D building in Second Life where their avatars hold meetings, stream video presentations, and listen to creative briefings. Jerry also talks about a "mixed reality event" he and others produced at R & B coffee house, where event participants could look into a digital simulation of the same coffee house in Second Life and interact with its avatars, while Second Life avatars could visit the digital simulation and watch live streaming video of the same event from the actual coffee house.
Participants: Jerry Paffendorf (NYC ), Wayne Ashley (Gent), Thomas Soetens (Gent ) Kora Van den Bulcke (Gent)
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Introductory Skype conversation with Carl Goodman
Hybridity
Participants: Carl Goodman, Wayne Ashley, Thomas Soetens, Kora Van den Bulcke
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Introductory I-Chat conversation with Jesse Shapins
Overclocking the City
Participants: Jesse Shapins, Wayne Ashley, Thomas Soetens, Kora Van den Bulcke
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Walkthrough in Second Life with Thomas Lowenhaupt
Skype conversation and walkthrough with Thomas Lowenhaupt to Democracy Island in Second Life
Participants: Thomas Lowenhaupt, John Klima, Wayne Ashley, Thomas Soetens, Kora Van den Bulcke
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Introductory I-Chat conversation with Katherine Isbister
Virtual Self & Society
Participants: Katherine Isbister, Wayne Ashley
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Introductory I-Chat conversation with Bill Jones
Hybridity
Participants: Bill Jones (speaking from New York), Wayne Ashley, Thomas Soetens, Kora Van den Bulcke
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Walkthrough in Second Life with Bix Stravinsky
Skype conversation and walkthrough with Bix Stravinsky in Second Life
Participants: Katherine Isbister (speaking from San Jose), Bix Stravinsky, Lauren Klotzman, Wayne Ashley, Thomas Soetens, Kora Van den Bulcke
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Introductory Skype conversation with Matt Adams, founding member of the London-based artist collective Blast Theory
Matt Adams and Workspace Unlimited's Thomas Soetens and Kora Van den Bulcke reflect upon the different ways their artistic practices open up cultural spaces within the overlapping domains of information technologies, public space, and urban life. Adams discusses his new work Day of the Figurines, a participatory mobile phone narrative that uses SMS; Soetens and Van den Bulcke talk about their new work Implant, a networked navigable 3D virtual world that posits an alternative model of the city of Gent as well as an imaginary version of the actual cultural center where the piece will be installed. Both articulate the benefits and limitations of the category "game" for thinking through, designing, and building their work. Finally, Matt ends with a series of provocations: Information technologies have thoroughly socialized individuals for the purposes of increasing production and consumption. Any kind of resistance has failed in the interest of capital. Artists' and other culture workers' claims to the "liberating" potential of information technologies are exaggerated and rhetorical at best.
Participants: Matt Adams (speaking from San Jose), Wayne Ashley (Gent), Thomas Soetens (Gent), Kora Van den Bulcke (Gent)
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Introductory Skype conversation with Yanna Vogiazou
Overclocking the City
Participants: Yanna Vogiazou (speaking from London), Thomas Soetens (Gent), Kora Van den Bulcke (Gent)
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Introductory Skype conversation with Liz Goodman
Overclocking the City
Participants: Liz Goodman (speaking from New York), Wayne Ashley (Gent), Thomas Soetens (Gent), Kora Van den Bulcke (Gent)
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Introductory Skype conversation with Philippe Bekaert
Hybridity.
Participants: Philippe (speaking from Belgium), Thomas Soetens (Gent), Kora Van den Bulcke (Gent)
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Introductory Skype conversation with Stamatia Portanova
Hybridity
Participants: Stamatia Portanova (speaking from Salerno), Wayne Ashley (Gent), Kora Van den Bulcke (Gent)
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Introductory Skype conversation with Michael Epstein
Hybridity, Overclocking the City, Virtual Self & Society.
Participants: Michael Epstein (speaking from MIT), Wayne Ashley (Gent), Thomas Soetens (Gent), Kora Van den Bulcke (Gent)
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Introductory Skype conversation with Suhjung Hur
Click here for the second part about the Forest project.
Overclocking the City, Virtual Self & Society.
Participants: Suhjung Hur (speaking from Nabi Center Korea), Wayne Ashley (Gent), Thomas Soetens (Gent), Kora Van den Bulcke (Gent)
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Introductory Ichat conversation with Luc Courchesne
Virtual Self & Society.
Participants: Luc Courchesne (speaking from his studio at the SAT in Montreal), Wayne Ashley (Gent), Thomas Soetens (Gent), Kora Van den Bulcke (Gent)
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Group Skype conversation with Bill Jones & Brian House,
Click here to listen to part 1
Click here to listen to part 2
Click here to listen to part 3
Participants: Bill Jones (speaking from New York), Brian House (speaking from New York), Wayne Ashley (Gent), Thomas Soetens (Gent), Kora Van den Bulcke (Gent)
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Skype conversation with Sheldon Brown
Click here to hear about the Breaking the Game symposium format.
Click here for the introductory skype conversation with Sheldon.
Participants: Sheldon Brown (speaking from the University of California), Wayne Ashley (Gent), Thomas Soetens (Gent), Kora Van den Bulcke (Gent)
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