{"id":584,"date":"2009-12-12T11:36:36","date_gmt":"2009-12-12T16:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/?p=584"},"modified":"2009-12-15T14:01:48","modified_gmt":"2009-12-15T19:01:48","slug":"before-after-media-dac-at-uci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2009\/12\/before-after-media-dac-at-uci\/","title":{"rendered":"Before &#038; After Media (DAC at UCI)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ian Bogost and I just gave a talk on platform studies at UC Irvine&#8217;s Center for Computer Games and Virtual Worlds. We talked about our book on the Atari VCS, <a href=\"http:\/\/nickm.com\/vcs\/\"><i>Racing the Beam,<\/i><\/a> and about the platform studies concept more generally. A nice crowd came out on the rainy Friday afternoon and engaged us in some good discussion afterwards. Although we&#8217;ve both talked about the book and platform studies in several different places, this was the first talk we&#8217;ve given together. I think it worked well, but I guess writing a book together is good preparation.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re giving another join talk at <a href=\"http:\/\/dac09.uci.edu\/\">Digital Arts and Culture<\/a> (&#8220;After Media&#8221;), which starts this evening and then runs for three days of panels (which include scholarly and artists&#8217; talks) and more unlikely presentations in the evenings. Besides my paper with Ian on platform studies misconceptions, I have another co-authored paper with Alex Mitchell on interactive fiction development systems, a &#8220;solo&#8221; paper on minimal poetry generators (the ppg256 series), and a reading at the DAC Literary Arts Extravaganza. I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing a slew of digital media folks and to enjoying the program, the company, and the Southern California environment &#8211; even if it keeps raining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ian Bogost and I just gave a talk on platform studies at UC Irvine&#8217;s Center for Computer Games and Virtual Worlds. We talked about our book on the Atari VCS, Racing the Beam, and about the platform studies concept more generally. A nice crowd came out on the rainy Friday afternoon and engaged us in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2009\/12\/before-after-media-dac-at-uci\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Before &#038; After Media (DAC at UCI)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,38,49,17,24,3,4,15,22,13],"class_list":["post-584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-books","tag-collaboration","tag-dac-2009","tag-digital","tag-gatherings","tag-if","tag-poetry","tag-programming","tag-upcoming","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":613,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions\/613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}