May be of interest to some of you ----------------------------------- Music, Technology and Culture Seminar, London Metropolitan University
Summer 2010 Programme 11 May: Giles Askham and Luke Hastilow (London Metropolitan University) Cubed: a networked physical gaming platform Cubed provides a unique re-programmable system of networked computational objects and an innovative tactile interface, with which to play technologically-enabled games in a variety of social settings. Cubed develops critical and technical ideas first advanced in John Von Neumann’s theories of Cellular Automata, in order to actualise computational devices in embedded contexts. A meshed networked system without a central controller, it consists of a set of gaming objects that communicate remotely with one and other in order to determine gaming protocols. Once these protocols are established, the network responds to user interaction in particular ways, enabling a variety of game play scenarios. Cubed was commissioned by Folly, the media arts agency, as part of the Portable Pixel Playground (PPP) project, whose remit is to provide interactive and hands-on experiences of art and technology for children and young people throughout the UK. www.askham.org www.portablepixelplayground.org/blog www.game-play.org.uk
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