Posts Tagged ‘videogames’

 

  • Adventures in the Uncanny Valley

    The best that the XBox avatar construction kit can do is to make me look like a virtual Pinocchio. Uncanny Valley, population = me.

  • Zombie Parables

    Crumbling, shambling, moaning, driven only by the never-ending search for more brains to consume, the zombie has become the cultural mascot of the early 21st century.

 
 

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Darren Wershler (aka Darren Wershler-Henry) is the Concordia University Research Chair in Media and Contemporary Literature (Tier 2). He works with the Technoculture, Art and Games (TAG) group, and is also part of the faculty at the CFC Media Lab TELUS Interactive Art & Entertainment Program. Darren is the author or co-author of 12 books, most recently, Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg (U of Toronto Press), and Update (Snare), with Bill Kennedy.


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