Week 01
INTRODUCTIONS
The first week consisted of Andy and Karen introducing the studio to us and running us through the different assignments.
It was really cool to see the multi-screen Collaberative Ultra setup they had made, I think in a way this was an introduction to the kind of work we would be doing in this studio.
MINECRAFT MELBOURNE
After the introductions the whole class met inside of Minecraft in a server that was designed to replicate Melbourne’s CBD.
This was quite a strange experience for me, having a classroom run inside of a video game really got me thinking about the future of teaching and the formats and platforms for online education. The idea of humans living completely online scares me. I can’t help but think of the Bruce Willis movie Surrogates.
MACHINIMA
Next we were introduced to the first assignment, Re-readings. Andy and Karen showed us the book House of Leaves which the first assignment would be based around.
We also looked at a few different examples of people using video games as storytelling or performance tools.
| The Pookah, 2008 | Quake Friends, 2002 |
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READING
Andy asked everyone if they were reading a book at the moment. I might try to document what i’m reading throughout the semester and what books i’m looking at, I think this would be interesting to be able to look back on. I’m currently reading A * New * Program for Graphic Design by David Reinfurt.