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[Civilization Revolution]

This morning my first contribution to Mez Breeze's excellent Augmentology 1[L]0[L]1 "GAM3R 7H30RY" blog went live. In the coming months I'm going to be developing a series of posts for Augmentology entitled Tentative Spaces which will explore the cultural and spatial quality of interface and information overlays in gaming. I'm interested in how gamers occupy these spaces and how they sit outside and "on top" of narrative. I plan to use this writing project to formalize and further develop many of the ideas I've explored in past posts on gaming like Ways of Seeing Digital Space, Notes on Operational Narrative and Learning from Liberty City. So rather than say any more, here is a link to the post.

[Eva and Franco Mattes (0100101110101101.ORG) / Perpetual Self Dis/Infecting Machine - Custom made computer infected with the virus Biennale / 2001-2004]

A new issue of Vague Terrain has launched and I'm quite excited to help spread the word about this provocative body of work. Vague Terrain 11: Curediting-Translational Online Work is a CONT3XT.NET organized survey of contemporary thinking about new media art, online curation and broader web culture.

The issue includes work from: Joasia Krysa, Laboratorio 060 (Lourdes Morales, Javier Toscano, Daniela Wolf), Annette Finnsdottir, Eva Moraga, CRUMB (Beryl Graham and Verina Gfader), Ela Kagel & Ursula Endlicher, Michelle Kasprzak, Furtherfield (Marc Garrett, Ruth Catlow), Geoff Cox, Jodi.org (Joan Heemskerk, Dirk Paesmans) and Domenico Quaranta. Neil Wiernik and I also contributed a text on our experience in developing Vague Terrain as a publishing/distribution platform over the last three years.

I'm extremely impressed with the work that CONT3XT.NET (Sabine Hochrieser, Michael Kargl & Franz Thalmair) have assembled and it was a pleasure to work with Franz in consolidating this material over the last few weeks. Please take some time to examine Vague Terrain 11: Curediting-Translational Online Work.