Tag: ai
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Back to Skool
Kit bag eagerly shouldered, I prepare to start my second year at the Academy of Live Technology. Returning to finish off my Foundation degree in Live Event Production, I’ll be specialising in Audio and Visuals instead of doing a little bit of everything. Although it seems, despite the long summer, that I’ve barely ever left…
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“It’s Only a Game, Isn’t it?”
Forging academic connections across the Pennines, last week took me to Manchester Metropolitan University for “Rituals of Play”. An international conference deftly combining gaming (in both digital and tabletop forms) with magick and the occult. This uniquely compelling focus for Manchester Game Centre’s annual Multiplatform symposium was ratified in conjunction with MMU’s Dark Arts Research…
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A Populace of Plastic People
In the 2013 TV special “How Videogames Changed the World”; Charlie Brooker (of Nathan Barley and Black Mirror infamy) positioned SocMed as nothing more than a game. Players would jostle for attention, earning points by views and followers. The aim being to win regardless of what it takes to get there, with integrity and accountability…
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