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news: doctor benjamin, doctor who, and posit design
news: doctor benjamin, doctor who, and posit design
So, I finished my thesis project. It’s portbou1940.com: a hypertext narrative examining the death of German-Jewish social critic, philosopher, and dialectical historian Walter Benjamin. I’ll be working on revising the written thesis this month, and turn it in next month; the official conferral of my masters degree will be in [...]
interactive narratives
interactive narratives
Did my thesis just become even more relevant? Mega-publisher Random House just struck a deal with California-based video-game design firm THQ, Inc. (more at MobyLives, via Rebecca Blood)
strategy + progress
strategy + progress
Welcome to positdesign 2011! Prepare for a major overhaul to this site, and a lot of details on my masters thesis, in upcoming months. For my thesis project, I’ll be describing the death of Walter Benjamin, a German-Jewish cultural critic who most people accept committed suicide in Portbou, Spain, in [...]
final project
final project
Here’s my final project from the truly exception Harvard Extension School course “Expository Writing E-48 : Multimedia Communication: Principles of Visual Rhetoric.” Probably one of the best classes I’ve taken in my ten years of availing myself of my favorite job perk. I normally hate group projects, but Jesse and [...]
Calling all web builders!
Calling all web builders!
I took it and so should you—The Survey For People Who Make Websites, 2010:
Im Juli
Im Juli
This month is all about production. Collaborative art with my boyfriend, making things happen in our apartment, and completing my master’s thesis proposal. This last is the biggest news. I found out several weeks ago that Harvard redeveloped my computer science degree program, changing the focus from Digital Media Arts [...]
all that is wrong in the universe
all that is wrong in the universe
While this “pink turd” (to borrow and slightly tweak Gruber‘s lovely turn of phrase) is truly, truly hideous, it actually is pretty much on par with the kind of clueless-about-half-the-species sort of whiz kids who named the iPad. Just my two thoughts on an item at digitaldaily.com
pinbOut
pinbOut
Very busy with classes, so here’s one of my programming projects to tide you over. I call it pinbOut; it’s a small video game somewhere between pinball and breakout (aka brickbreaker, but more properly arkanoid). http://positdesign.com/media/pinbout/ Player one (white) is controlled with the z and x keys; player two (black) [...]
Happy Ada Lovelace Day!!
Happy Ada Lovelace Day!!
In the last three weeks, my programming class has kept me too busy playing my hand at being Ada to put together a coherent piece on the order of last year’s ALD post. But I’m already planning something all-out for next year. So this one’s a quickie. Much of tech [...]
I built this
I built this
A “playful paint program” that you can play with, at http://positdesign.com/media/paintplay/
built with Processing
built with Processing
This semester I’m studying Processing, a Java-ish programming language developed by and for visual artists. I churned out a couple of sketches last week, but this is my first interactive piece in the language. I’m really having fun in code; I’m learning; I’m absorbing the algorithms by osmosis, and just [...]
