James Sweeting, Associate Lecturer Game Arts and Design and PhD Student with Transtechnology Research, writes: The relationship between videogames and music is one that has developed significantly over the few decades that the videogames medium has been around for. During the early stages of the existence of videogames, music did not extend much beyond simple electronic sounds.… Continue reading Relative Nostalgia and the Revival of Past Aesthetics in Videogames
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From digital to post-digital memory
On The Arts Institute Digital Memory Symposium: Monday, 16th January 2017 By Hannah Drayson and James Sweeting The University of Plymouth’s Art Institute’s first one-day research symposium brought together researchers from across the Faculty of Arts & Humanities to respond to the theme of Digital Memory. It aimed to explore how the ‘turn to the material’ across… Continue reading From digital to post-digital memory
23 March 2016: “Freedom of Time and Space: Technological Affordances of Play” seminar
You are welcome to attend this seminar, presented by James Sweeting, and organised by the Transtechnology research group 23 March 2016 at 1pm in the seminar room on Floor 3 of the Link Building, Plymouth University. In 1979, Gunpei Yokoi, traveling on a bullet train, saw a bored businessman playing with an LCD calculator… Continue reading 23 March 2016: “Freedom of Time and Space: Technological Affordances of Play” seminar