March 2010
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Tumblr, Posterous, and Bookmarklet Instructions
With the recent Mozilla/Metalab shakedown in mind, I’ve been thinking a lot about stealing vs. borrowing in terms of web design. Both happen, both can be good, and both are easy to define. Stealing without giving credit is a bad idea. Stealing as a starting point for further exploration gives us new ideas and built-in reference points to compare and assess. Perhaps evolution is a better...
February 2010
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My 20 Favorite Stacey-Powered Websites
I’m not Smashing Magazine, but as I’ve been doing freelance work with a ceramic artist wanting to revamp her website, I’ve been looking at a lot of websites created with Stacey. It’s a nice, non-database content management system that uses text files and folders to automatically generate text and image gallery content. It’s also very configurable (with css,...
Cool Jules Verne Book Covers!!! →
Wow, these book cover designs are gorgeous! (via jboxhorn)
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The Identity Crisis of Contemporary Games Captured
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January 2010
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Rhizome | Review of Prospectives 09
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Rhizome is featuring Chris Lanier’s review of the Prospectives.09 exhibition in Reno, which included Gaming the Network Poetic. The exhibit came down last month, but I’ll be submitting GTNP to other venues in the near future. It’s a worthy read; here’s the bit about my piece: Joshua Fishburn’s Gaming the Network Poetic (2009) links five games in a...
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IRUS Art Shows in Chicago, Jan 29-Feb 4
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Friends, especially those in Chicago, please check out Dialogue: Presented by IRUS art (an intercultural collaborative art work between artists in Iran and the U.S.) at Co-Prosperity Sphere in Chicago from January 29th through February 4th, with an opening reception on January 29th from 7-10 PM. This is an opportunity to see work that has so far only been shown in Denver,...
November 2009
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8-Bit Game People in Rio
I really wish I was down in Rio for 8-Bit Game People, which includes chiptunes performances as well as an exhibit of videogames. I’m showing Survive/Progress there, which was selected as one of the best games at FILE 2009 in São Paulo. After digging around a bit on the website, I found the full list of games (pictured below). Just about every other name on that list is someone I’ve...
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39˚ 44′ 11″ N x 104˚ 59′ 21″ W by Timothy Weaver...
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I’m very excited to announce the opening of “39˚ 44′ 11″ N x 104˚ 59′ 21″ W”, an interactive installation included in Embrace! at the Denver Art Museum. I am one of the collaborators on a team led by Timothy Weaver that also includes David Fodel, Brigid McAuliffe, and Nick Meyers. The show officially opened on November 14th, 2009 and our...
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Gaming the Network Poetic - All Five Games In One...
Below you’ll find a video with all five games from Gaming the Network Poetic running in the same video. Some may appear to be a little too fast — I used the “saveFrame” function in Processing to export individual frames so that I could capture in high resolution, but some games have less processing going on and thus were able to export more frames in the same amount of time, so I...
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Gaming the Network Poetic in Reno, NV
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I was down in Reno, NV at the University of Nevada last week to install Gaming the Network Poetic at the Prospectives.09 festival (you should check out the website, because every time that you do, this drill from Jonah Brucker-Cohen will drill into the wall at the Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery), and to deliver a talk on the work. Because I couldn’t afford to ship the whole...
Gaming the Network Poetic at Sheppard Fine Arts...
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Some photos from my setup at Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery in Reno, NV for the Prospectives.09 festival. Higher quality photos coming soon. There was also some nice coverage of the event in the News Review.
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Electronic Popables by Jie Qi
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Absolutely gorgeous electronic pop-up book design. This came out of the MIT High-Low Tech Group which is run by Leah Buechley. I was fortunate to see her presentation at a CO-LAB event last year when she was still out here in Colorado. She’s doing some of the most interesting work anywhere on the intersections of gender, technology, geekdom, and play.
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October 2009
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Untitled Art Show Episode 42: Guest Josh Fishburn
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Last Wednesday I was invited to be a guest on the Untitled Art Show, a weekly audio podcast focused on the Denver Arts Scene. I really enjoyed being on the show and having the opportunity to talk about my work. In case you didn’t get a chance to check it out, you can listen in the player above. Feedback/conversation is welcome in the comments.
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Gaming the Network Poetic - Video from the Opening...
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Insider Moment at the Denver Art Museum
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Here’s a fun photo of our artist group which is producing the 39N - 104W installation (sans Brigid McAuliffe, who could not make this photo shoot) at the Denver Art Museum as part of this fall’s Embrace! exhibit. From left to right: David Fodel, Joshua Fishburn, Nick Meyers, Timothy Weaver. Today (Tuesday, October 20th) at Noon there will be an...
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Gaming the Network Poetic - Galleries from the...
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Thanks to Natalie’s Mom for taking the photos and videos in the first set. The second set contains photos from the opening and from my visit to the gallery this week to document the piece itself. More news, photos, and video to come!
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Gaming the Network Poetic - So Far
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I submitted Gaming the Network Poetic to the Prospectives.09 International Digital Arts Festival call earlier this week. Part of the submission process was putting together the Flickr gallery linked above for documentation. I wanted to post it here for those interested in the project, as it shows the progress of the project from concept to (near) completion.
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Gaming the Network Poetic - Assembly Photos Round...
Here are a few pictures from the past couple weeks of the assembly stages of my project. Right now it looks a bit like a coffin, but eventually this thing will have a monitor mounted on each face of the pentagon, computers sitting inside the box, and a playable game on each screen. I’m also planning to attach a white plastic layer to each face to give the whole assembly a cleaner look. ...
Updated MFA Thesis Exhibition Flier
I’ve updated my flier with the full dates of the show - it’ll be up at Plus Gallery through November 14th, so if you miss the opening this Friday there’s still more time to check it out.
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fishburnMFAFlierwDates.pdf (1876 KB)
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September 2009
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Gaming the Network Poetic
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Life Size Computer Snowball Game
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Context and Aesthetic Judgements » Lone Gunman
people rate pictures as more aesthetically pleasing (and actually experience more pleasure while viewing them) if they believe they come from art galleries. via lonegunman.co.uk
Because I have not paid to access the full study, some of this will be conjecture, but I’d like to use it to begin a discussion of interested to my research on the presentation of videogames in artistic...
August 2009
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America's Army Game Used to Create Machinima About...
Machinima artist Paolo Pedercini turns the tables on the U.S. Defense Department’s controversial America’s Army recruiting game in Welcome to the desert of the real. The 6:37 video uses footage from America’s Army to highlight symptions of post-traumatic stress disorder, an increasingly prevalent condition among U.S. service personnel returning from combat zones in Iraq and...
The Beauty of Retro Game Design
Not just in terms of pixels, the two tumblogs highlighted below offer examples of typography of title screens and arcade cabinet and box art, respectively. There’s even some Fairchild box art mixed in there. Lots of sweeping, curved, thick, parallel lines in these late seventies/early eighties designs, and the typefaces follow (think of the Pong title). These are mostly eye candy, but...
Learning to Program Games - Greenfoot Book...
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I wanted to share this excellent book on programming in Greenfoot (just released), which is a Java-based simulation/programming environment that we’ve been using for the past three years on the P4 Games project to teach programming to people new to programming. I haven’t seen a program that does a better job of introducing and visualizing the concept of objects...
Play Multitask, a free online game on Kongregate
Think you can handle multiple games at once? See just how coordinated you are. via kongregate.com
Curiously addictive, if only to see what comes next, and would make an interesting entry point into a discussion of strategy in games. What strategies did you find yourself using? What score did you decide was enough? (I stopped at 84 because I just wanted to see that fourth screen. At that...
Kind of Bloop: An 8-Bit Tribute to Miles Davis'...
Kind of Bloop An 8-Bit Tribute to Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue
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Believe it or not, the samples for this chiptune remake of Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue sound really impressive. What’s almost as fascinating is the story of how it got made. To cover the royalty fees and other costs, the producer Andy Baio collected the $2000 needed in four hours through...
Game Over by PES
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FILE & São Paulo - Photos and Video
The first gallery is from the FILE International Electronic Language Festival. It includes some documentation of my own work, but mostly tries to give an overall idea of the show and focus on a few of the works that I found most compelling.
This second gallery contains mostly photographs of the amazing graffiti in the Liberdade neighborhood of São Paulo. On my second-to-last day in the...
July 2009
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ELAC Miracord 50, New Cartridge, New Life
See and download the full gallery on posterous I was over at a good friend’s house when he asked me if I wanted an old turntable that he had sitting in his basement. It was old, didn’t sound great, and instead of selling it he wanted it to go to someone who might use it. I have always wanted to have a turntable, but never enough to go out and buy one, so this was a...
President Obama Spotlights HopeLab as Model of...
Today President Barack Obama is expected to recognize HopeLab as an example of successful social innovation for its work to harness the power and appeal of technology to improve kids’ health. HopeLab will be one of four organizations highlighted at a White House event launching the new White Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation. HopeLab President and CEO Pat Christen will...
April 2009
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