Hacking Simulations and Simulacra in e-VR
Henceforth, it is the map that precedes the territory – PRECESSION OF SIMULACRA – it is the map that engenders the territory and if we were to revive the fable today, it would be the territory whose...
View ArticleHacking Simulations, Simulacra & VR
In this essay, I review key concepts in Baudrillard’s Simulacra and Simulation (Baudrillard, 1994), their relation to the Matrix film series, and their importance in terms of hacking, especially...
View ArticleAlchemy and Archives, Swords, Spells, and Castles: Medieval-modding Skyrim
This is our proposed draft chapter (7500-9000 words) for a book on medieval and games.. Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, through its rich modding possibilities, has great potential as a teaching and learning...
View Article2021: my year in print
What have I been doing this year? Playing a lot of piano, badly. But also (and I hope to add 2 journal articles and a book project and a serious game design project to this mix): Invitations: Invited...
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“Workshopping Board Games for Space, Place, and Culture” revised chapter, authored with Juan Hiriart, for “Playing Place” (edited by Medina Lasansky and Chad Randl, MIT Press) sent off today. Each...
View ArticleImmersive Literacy-Online Resource
For a Digital Learning Futures unit, I created a prototype website on gitbook with resources for Immersive Literacy (and XR via AFrame run and edited inside CodePen) as a potential teaching unit. I...
View ArticleISMAR workshop MrICHE
#CFP I was invited onto the program committee for IEEE International Workshop on “Mixed Reality Implications on Cultural Heritage Experience (MrICHE)”. The workshop will be held in conjunction with the...
View ArticleVirtual Heritage: A Guide
I have been informed, that if there are no major holdups the above will be available as a free online book from Ubiquity Press in July 2021. Cover image courtesy of Michael Carter.
View Articleupdate: “Virtual Heritage: A Guide”
Dear Rosa and Andrea (and Michael) Thanks to the colleagues and co-authors who helped inspired me to edit a concise book for students that will be open access (i.e. free PDF downloads). Virtual...
View Article“Rethinking Virtual Places” can be ordered in September
Out in November, purchasable in September. Contact IUP for reviewer copies “Rethinking Virtual Places” (in the IUP Spatial Humanities series) https://iupress.org/9780253058355/rethinking-virtual-places
View ArticleDraft Portfolio
Was drafting a portfolio on canva to test it out and I notice the (huge) PDF doesn’t seem to have font legibility issues but the shareable linked online version does. Perhaps browser-dependent. Oh...
View ArticleVisiting Fellowship to Finland
Received a Visiting Fellow invite to the University of Jyväskylä, Finland (member of the Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies), very honoured. I am just wondering if The Australian government...
View Article#CFP Web3D
CFP Web3D: “A Shared 3D Workspace” Virtual Conference (web3d.siggraph.org) The goal of the conference is to share innovative and creative ideas about web-based interactive 3D applications, including...
View Articlecfp soon: Living Digital Heritage
Macquarie University in Sydney, NSW, Australia, plan to hold the above conference 5-7 November 2021 in Sydney Australia (and remotely). I imagine the CFP will be out soon, website is at:...
View ArticleGraduate Certificate
Today I received a letter from Charles Darwin University: Outstanding Academic Achievement The most recent review shows that you achieved outstanding results in the UDLF01 – Graduate Certificate of...
View ArticlePlaying With The Past 2nd ed.
Are second editions of specialist academic books worth the rewrite? Springer asked me to consider a second edition of Playing With the Past (https://lnkd.in/gXYH5Uy), as 10,000 chapters have been...
View ArticleSmall VR game grant
Led by Susannah Emery, a game design academic at UniSA, I am part of a small team of academics and game designers (Melonhead games, developed Rooftop Renegade) who will develop a game and teaching...
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