gaming
Where the Old and New Collide: IBM Place Summit 2010
The IBM Center for Social Software hosts the first ever Place Summit in Cambridge, MA and I am one of over 100 people invited to the event. The Social and the Spacial: Occupying Place and Space is a two-day extended conversation held in un-conference style which is a facilitated, participant-driven event centered on a theme or purpose. We are sent an announcement that poses the following questions for thought:
Where the Old and the New Collide: FutureMedia Fest 2010
Storytelling is at the forefront of every stage of content creation and it is the theme of my second NAMAC blog 'travelogue'. Here I begin exactly one day after the SIEGE 2010 Expo concluded when the FutureMedia Fest kicks off at Georgia Tech. I offer my personal experience with computer-based media as a backstory.
Where the Old and New Collide: The SIEGE 2010 Expo
My NAMAC 'travelogue' series begins with my love of scavenger hunts, you know, those games in which the participants must gather, or perform tasks or take photographs of specific items. The aim of the scavenger hunt is usually to be the first to complete the game, or complete it in the most creative manner. With the advent and growth of the web and other emerging technologies scavenger hunts have been revived and are evolving with the help of new media forms such as augmented reality gaming which I will explain later in this post.
