“Mind-reading” technology
Just have a look at the following picture: What do you think is happening here? One might think that the pictures depicted show how an Artificial...
Continue reading...Deepfake technology in the Age of Fake News
Events and information being purposely (mis)presented in misleading or simply malicious ways is no new phenomenon, however since 2016 and Donald Trump, this type of misleading...
Continue reading...Queering Up the Games: Identity Curation
You were right mom
Facebook was launched in 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg and his roommates at Harvard University. Until 2006, Facebook’s main objective was to connect college students, notably those...
Continue reading...2+2=4 -1=3 Quick Maths…
Cloudy With a Chance of Brains
Waking up dead tired on a dreary Saturday morning is never fun, but even more so in November. The sky is grey and it never seems...
Continue reading...Using the blog as an excuse to express rampant homesickness lol
This weekend, my sister celebrated her 30th birthday in Manresa, Spain, where she has been living for the past 4 years. My whole family (mum, dad,...
Continue reading...What Does Our Facebook Profile Say About Us?
There are an immense amount of social media platforms current, probably we don’t even know about some of them. However, Facebook is probably the one that...
Continue reading...Jesus is a Transvestite
Video Games: Where’s the boundary between physical and virtual worlds?
The experiencial video game: a digital avant-garde
@MoMA
Before beginning this week’s post, I started thinking about cyborgs and whether they should be understood as a technological modification of humans or as a humanification...
Continue reading...The Entire ‘Stories’ of You
“The Entire History of You” is the third and final episode of the first series of British science fiction anthology series Black Mirror. The episode, set...
Continue reading...The Art Canon and The Digital Era walk into a bar…
The digital era has brought forward an enormous change within society, a change of how we use tools, how we share and how we learn. It...
Continue reading...Gender representation in video games
Do not disturb. Studying for English exam.
The last weeks in class, we’ve been talking about games and the gamer scene in general. That made me think about if there are any connections...
Continue reading...What Gets Measured Gets Managed
Nowadays more and more young people become conscious of their health. Health is wealth and it is hard to maintain it in a good condition in...
Continue reading...We are all cyborgs (video + blogpost)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9nRolGa42w The video titled ‘We Are All Cyborgs’ is a short introduction and artistic interpretation of Donna Haraway’s ‘Cyborg Manifesto’ (1985). What is a cyborg you...
Continue reading...I am addicted to you
I actually wanted to write this blog about a new experience with video games due to a couple of reasons. First, the course will focus on...
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