Watch Will Wright’s Talk at the Games for Learning Institute
LIVE WEBCAST – TODAY at 6:00pm Eastern
February 5th, 2010
Click here for LIVE WEBCAST of Will Wright today at 6:00 PM Eastern broadcasting from the Skirball Center in New York.
Limited standby tickets are available on a first-come, first-served basis at the box office at 5:45PM.
Please note the the feed is in RealPlayer format. To view the feed you will need software that is compatible with RealPlayer formatted videos, such as real player or VLC
NYU Game Center presents Alex Galloway on “Philosophy & Games”
February 4th, 2010
RSVP required – gamecenter.nyu.edu
“Philosophy & Games” — For centuries philosophers have explored the concepts of “game” and “play,” from Friedrich Schiller’s notion of the “play-drive” to Johan Huizinga’s image of “the human as player.” In this presentation we will explore the interplay between philosophy and games in these and other writers, ending with a quick introduction to the contemporary trend known as “object-oriented philosophy.”
Alexander R. Galloway is a writer and programmer. He is creator of the Carnivore and Kriegspiel projects, and author of the book “Gaming: Essays on Algorithmic Culture” (Minnesota, 2006). He teaches media theory at NYU in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication.
The NYU Game Center is housed in the Skirball Center for New Media at the Tisch School of the Arts and is a collaboration between Tisch, NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development, and the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. The Center is supported by generous grants from an anonymous donor and the Rockefeller Foundation.
RSVP Required gamescenter@nyu.edu
G4LI to present at GDC: March 10
February 3rd, 2010
G4LI co-directors Ken Perlin and Jan L. Plass will together with former MSR senior manager John Nordlinger give a 6o-min presentation on the institute’s research, entitled The Games for Learning Institute: Research on Design Patterns for Effective Educational Games. This presentation is part of the Game Developers Conference Serious Games Summit, held from March 9-10 in the San Francisco Moscone center.
March 10, 10-11am, Room 133, North Hall, Moscone Center
