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Second Nature’s second issue hones in on the affects of mobile and locative media on the production and reception of games, media arts and contemporary life.
Produced in conjunction with the ‘Games, Locative and Mobile Media’ research group and co-edited with Rowan Wilken, this issue’s keynote essay is by renowned games theorist, Katie Salen.
A wealth of papers, articles, reviews and creative projects contributed by leading researchers, academics, games writers and media artists makes this a ‘must read’ for anyone interested in the present and future of media and games.
Read online at http://secondnature.rmit.edu.au
'Games, Locative and Mobile Media' Second Nature International Journal of Creative Media issue #2 Contents include:
Pokéwalkers, Mafia Dons, and Football Fans: Play Mobile with Me by Katie Salen
Haptic Vision, Footwork, Place-Making: A Peripatetic Phenomenology of the Mobile Phone by Ingrid Richardson and Rowan Wilken
Up the Garden Path: Or How to get Smart in Public by Caroline Bassett
Exertion Gaming as Kinaesthetic Technicity by Bjorn Nansen
Colony: An Urban Art Environment by Troy Innocent
Modeling the Social in Locative Media: Collaborative GPS by Chris Speed, Jen Southern, and Chris Lowry
Place Matters: Locative Media as Public Art Education by Hana Iverson
The Mobile City project and urban gaming by Michiel de Lange
The “Almost Perfect” Residency at Banff New Media Institute by Tony Allard
The Sims: Building a Trellis for Stories by Andrea Phillips
Reviews
The Sims 3 by Cat Wendt
Mobile Media in the Asia-Pacific: Gender and the art of being mobile by Jennifer Lade
Emotional Cartography: Technologies of the Self by Dean Keep
Digital Cityscapes: merging digital and urban playspaces by Jules Moloney
Sound Moves: iPod Culture and Urban Experience by Rowan Wilken
Creative Projects
Mobile Camera Phones and Postmemory Imaginaries by Marsha Berry
“...this is a photo of something, and it proves nothing” by Stuart Murdoch
City Solitaire by Claire Maria Smith
Look out for issue 3 “Super Human” out in March 2010
Issue 4 ‘Mnemotechnologies’
Currently seeking papers, articles, reviews and creative projects investigating concepts and issues of memory and forgetting. Deadline for proposals April 1st, 2010 Contact the editor Shiralee Saul to discuss. shiralee.saul@rmit.edu.au
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