December 5, 2009 at 7:38 pm · Filed under Events, Theory
Jane McGonigal provides an amazing and seemingly unintentional response to Hubert Dreyfus’ earlier remarks.
McGonigal explains how the average young person who is a gamer will spend 10,000 playing games by the time they reach the age of 21. This is also the same amount of hours that they will spend in secondary school. Incidentally, in Outliers Gladwell argues that 10,000 hours is the amount of time to spend on something in order to get mastery.
So, McGonigal asks, rather than working on fictional problems on games, what if we could harness the collective 3 billion hours spent gaming a week on real-world problems. Jamais Cascio with Institute for the Future has a phrase: Super-Empowered Hopeful Individuals. With Cascio, McGonigal works at the Institute for the Future to build games that deal with real world problems such as the world without oil.
For Jane’s slides visit: slides@avantgame.com
December 5, 2009 at 7:21 pm · Filed under Artworks, Events, Thoughts
Marc Davis, Chief Scientist and Co-Founder of Invention Arts looks at how digital networks make the invisible visible and the impermanent permanent as we know when peoples whereabouts overlap with devices like an iPhone, for example.
How does this relate to artists such as William Kentridge who look to make the invisible visible in art projects such as Parcours D’atelier: Artist in the Studio? Kentridge uses art products to make the invisible visible. How, then, does his product relate to those social networking processes that we’ve been exploring all day?
Also, as Davis uses game theory to understand the scale of social interaction with his projects that work with geo-tagged photographs etc, I wonder how we can use performance theory as it relates to game theory to understand connections between social media and art pieces that engage similar concepts.
December 5, 2009 at 5:53 pm · Filed under Events
Thinking about aesthetic models, Greg Nieymeyer is playing google jockey for the current panel.
3:00-4:30 pm: ROUNDTABLE: The Future of the Forum
Moderator: Professor Shannon Jackson, TDPS, UC Berkeley
Dick Costolo, COO, Twitter
Seth Goldstein, Co-Founder and CEO, SocialMedia
Reid Hoffman, Founder, LinkedIn
Laura Sydell, Journalist, National Public radio
Check it out live: http://bcnm.berkeley.edu/fotf/live.html
