Mobile components for playful cultural resistance

Kars Alfrink – The Web and Beyond 2008

Provo

gramschap.nl/provo/chrono/wit.jpg

“…the street finds its own uses for things”

—William Gibson

flickr.com/photos/mallix/2241056021/

flickr.com/photos/clarkmackey/462381004/

Flash Mobs

flickr.com/photos/revcyborg/52850636/ & flickr.com/photos/piccadillywilson/330940825/

“The opposite of play is not work. It’s depression.”

—Brian Sutton-Smith

“Play is free movement within a more rigid structure.”

—Katie Salen & Eric Zimmerman

Free Running

flickr.com/photos/jonlucas/204213682/

LED Throwies

flickr.com/photos/iko/357496164/ & flickr.com/photos/urban_data/99808413/

Mario Question Blocks

bladediary.com/questionblocks/q3.jpg

“Processing data is the very essence of what a computer does. […] Using the computer in a data-intensive mode wastes its greatest strength.”

—Chris Crawford

flickr.com/photos/the-small-print/2299675674/ & flickr.com/photos/dpicker/331101373/

“Procedural rhetoric […] arguments are made not through the construction of words or images, but through the authorship of rules of behavior, the construction of dynamic models.”

—Ian Bogost

September 12

newsgaming.com/games/index12.htm

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flickr.com/photos/vinduhl/2157172876/, flickr.com/photos/mattbrett/1811618085/ & flickr.com/photos/hippie/2221162502/

The British UFO invasion of 1967

Images removed due to rights limitations

flickr.com/photos/nolifebeforecoffee/124659356/

Zona Incerta

youtube.com/watch?v=qGpVgfrYlXU

“These things are far too important to take seriously.”

—Bill Buxton

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