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Michael Mateas

DANM 249 Oct 10

Intersection of artificial intelligence & new media.

Blog- grand text auto (game theorists, gamers, academics, etc…) Including mary flannagan

Ambient generative piece-ethnoograhic interviews in understanding the qualitative trajectory, learning experience of living with the piece. Developing stories about it.

Expressive intelligence Artificial intelligence, games, and new media

Tableau machine

• background presence reflecting the mood of the home
• uses cameras positioned throughout the home to sense physical activity in salient “zones’
• generates a display as a function of the activity in these zones

Alien presence

• what kinds of alien subjectivities can you build with ai? As opposed to building human subjectivities?

Lots of stuff people are doing beyond hypertext in terms of new textal writings….ie brown university mfa program and its cave….

Meta learning of non-linear writing

Story, narratology, and ludology….

Façade

• game that took 5 years to build. A dramatic, dynamic games…. (high-agency )

game scholars? Who are they?

Player agency, allowing them to take action within the confines ..turn storytelling an algorithmic, computational understanding….build game machanics around storytelling.

Procedural expressions created from the database of textual snip bits

The characters have actions with/without you

Ai research in the context of artmaking and visa versa

Augmented vs. virtual reality (augment is where you add a virtual component to real world, virtual is where you add your real world self in a virtual world).

News games…using games for political expressions….sort of editorial game

Jim Whitehead

Problem of level design

• segmentation of game play in time

complete an objective and then go on to the next level

• designed playfields.

No good academic treatments of level design

• what are the key design issues?
• how do game and level design interact?
• is it useful o understand level design a process of writing software that runs on a game frame?
• how might you o about critical analysis of level design independently from game rule design? Might reveal something specific about platform design.

Automatic generation of levels?

• potential for automatic generation of game levels
• can we create human player models?

David Sudnow, mastering breakout…the way of the hand. Pilgram….

Digira Game Conference Gender inclusive…computational and gaming literacy for middle school age girls… Mary flanningan’s rupenzel project Storytelling alice getting girls involved in game making and computational curricular and social intervention facade

parsing technology…semantic parsing..the underlining, formal meanings are no semantics, they are pragmatics….

Notes 201 (Benjamin)

Lots of unfinished works The Arcades Project…it prefigures a kind of hypertext. An exhaustive encyclopedic hypertextual text on Paris!! The stuff happening in urban development.

Mediums are not neutral and there are ideologies underneath them….

Photography was a sort of focal point for investigating mechanical reproduction affects on human beinsg. Mechanization

Movies to see: Max—john cuszak The cradle will rock—during the great

• • Architecture of doom

The man and the camera Triumph of the will