MoMA's new videogame collection - Boing Boing

New York's Museum of Modern Art has acquired 14 videogames that will be playable in a gallery there beginning in March 2013. According to Paola Antonelli, the MoMA's senior curator of architecture and design, these titles are "the seedbed for an initial wish list of about 40 to be acquired in the near future, as well as for a new category of artworks." I'm delighted that my favorite game, Pac-Man (1980), was part of the initial acquisition. The others include: Tetris (1984), Another World (1991), Myst (1993), SimCity 2000 (1994), vib-ribbon (1999), The Sims (2000), Katamari Damacy (2004), EVE Online (2003), Dwarf Fortress (2006), Portal (2007), flOw (2006), Passage (2008), and Canabalt (2009). "Video Games: 14 in the Collection, for Starters"

MoMA's new videogame collection - Boing Boing

Read your newspaper on your computer? 1981!

Press Pushes Hard on "Death of the Printed Book" Angle, All Based on Ikea Bookshelf Redesign

Press Pushes Hard on ‘Death of the Printed Book’ Angle, All Based on Ikea Bookshelf Redesign - UnBeige

In case you missed it, over the weekend, the Economist set off something of a firestorm that’s continuing to reverberate this week with their story “Great Digital Expectations,” wherein they wrote that “next month IKEA will introduce a new, deeper version of its ubiquitous ‘BILLY’ bookcase,” followed by their reasoning for the change: “The firm reckons customers will increasingly use them for ornaments, tchotchkes and the odd coffee-table tome — anything, that is, except books that are actually read.”

As you might expect, this provided ample fodder for too many news outlets to list to jump in with headlines about the death of the printed book. Searching for “Ikea” and “bookcase” lands you pieces like theGlobe and Mail‘s “Does a Revamped IKEA Shelf Spell the End for Books?” andTime‘s “Ikea Redesigns Classic Bookshelf, Foreshadows the Demise of Books.” The only rub is that nearly all of these stories relied upon the Economist‘s opinion, not necessarily the truth of the matter. NPR spoke to an Ikea representative, hearing that while the redesign news was accurate, “the change to the bookcase was made simply to allow people to store bigger books.”Curbed got even more info from the company, hearing directly from the Billy the Bookshelf himself (itself?), reiterating that “My shelves are deeper so I can house bigger books. Deeper books.” Our favorite response (and mentioned by Billy) came from Rosie Gray at the Village Voice who wrote in reply to all the frantic waving of hands and “sky is falling” reports, “It looks more like a thing that holds books and less like a thing that is setting out to kill the publishing industry, but maybe that’s just us.” And while all of this was going on, not many outlets seemed to pick up on the bigger story, that only had the company redesigned its 30-year old staple, but had also slashed its prices on the bookcase, a sign for those, like at Bloomberg, who take seriously the “Ikea Index,” in which price changes reflect international financial health.

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SUMMER 2011 Course: Art 511: Introduction to Physical Computing

This class has been very popular and is now offered this Summer, 2011. It is a great elective for design students

Content relates to industrial technology, industrial design, exhibit design, user interface design, interactive installations, etc.  This is an accessible way to creatively play with the intersection between computers and the physical world.

Using Flickr Geotags to Map the World's Cities

Photographer Eric Fischer uses Flickr's geotags to create city maps that show the places of intense human interest.

• Article in Fast Company
• Flickr: Visualizations of Locals and Tourists

LetterMpress: A Virtual Letterpress on Your iPad

Experience the Art and Craft of Letterpress Printing on your iPad

LetterMpress™ will be a virtual letterpress environment—released first on the iPad—that will allow anyone to create authentic-looking letterpress designs and prints.

The design process is the same as the letterpress process—you place and arrange type and cuts on a press bed, lock the type, ink the type, and print. You will be able to create unlimited designs, with multiple colors, using authentic vintage wood type and art cuts. And you can print your design directly from LetterMpress or save it as an image for import it into other applications.

Macworld Opportunity for Students

Dying to go to this year's Macworld?

PicScout ImageExchange is currently looking for 75 people to be part of our grassroots marketing effort at Macworld to spread the good word about our free tool for graphic pros.

Here's the deal-

As a PicScout ImageExchange user (you can become one if they aren't one yet), we'll give you:

Play: Berkeley Digital Media Conference

The >play conference is organized and led by the members of the Berkeley Digital Media & Entertainment Club (DMEC), which is an organization of MBA students interested in understanding, exploring and anticipating business opportunities found at the nexus of technology, media and entertainment. DMEC provides its members with the chance to learn about these opportunities and the broader business of digital media through a number of avenues, including:

• Conferences and speaker series (most notably the annual >play conference)
• Recruitment and company events within and beyond Silicon Valley
• Mixer events to connect with professionals and alumni in the digital media industry
• Company visits to explore summer internship and full-time opportunities (recent visits include Activision Blizzard, NBC Universal, and Warner Bros.)
• Opportunities to develop expertise in specific aspects of digital media, and blog accordingly

We hope you enjoy our website and encourage you to become active in our organization.

IDEO Imagines the Future of Books

Meet Nelson, Coupland, and Alice — the faces of tomorrow’s book. Watch IDEO’s vision for the future of the book. What new experiences might be created by linking diverse discussions, what additional value could be created by connected readers to one another, and what innovative ways we might use to tell our favorite stories and build community around books?



The Future of the Book. from IDEO on Vimeo.

Kindle E-Book Sales Surpass Hardcovers at Amazon

"We've reached a tipping point with the new price of Kindle—the growth rate of Kindle device unit sales has tripled since we lowered the price from $259 to $189," said Jeff Bezos, Founder and CEO of Amazon.com. "In addition, even while our hardcover sales continue to grow, the Kindle format has now overtaken the hardcover format. Amazon.com customers now purchase more Kindle books than hardcover books—astonishing when you consider that we've been selling hardcover books for 15 years, and Kindle books for 33 months."

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128629853&sc=emaf

Clay Shirky: How cognitive surplus will change the world

Clay Shirky looks at "cognitive surplus" -- the shared, online work we do with our spare brain cycles. While we're busy editing Wikipedia, posting to Ushahidi (and yes, making LOLcats), we're building a better, more cooperative world.

Part-time student web design assistant

The College of Creative Arts Publicity Office seeks qualified student assistants to help with various duties in media content generation, Web site development and communications efforts.

All positions are part time, 20 hours per week maximum. Salary $9.70–$15 hour, depending on experience.

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Junior Front-End Web Developer (JOB ID 13990)

This is a technically focused position. XHTML and CSS, Accessibility Guidelines (Section 508), Adobe Creative Suite.

Requirements

• Passed JEPET or ENG 414.
• Hand code XHTML and CSS. JavaScript experience a plus.
• Experience with Adobe Creative Suite (emphasis on Photoshop and Acrobat).
• Experience customizing a content publishing or management systems recommended.
• Familiarity with basic design practices a plus.

Apply online: http://bit.ly/86qPB0

Job details and application instructions are available online:
http://creativearts.sfsu.edu/jobs

Conceptual Information Arts Spring 2010 - Space available

Three newly added courses for the spring and spaces available:

Art511- New Communication Technology in the Visual Arts
(Telecommunications and the Web)
(Instructor: Andy Cox/http://twcdc.com/andycox/)

Art511-Electronics and Robotics
(Electronics and Physical Computing)
(Instructor: Michael Shiloh/http://www.teachmetomake.com/teach/portfolio-mich.htm)

Art 412-Computer Applications in Conceptual Design I
(Focus on Processing as the programming environment)
(Instructor: Brad Borevitz-/onetwothree.net)

Conceptual Information Arts Spring 2010

These sound like great courses, if these areas are of interest.

Art511- New Communication Technology in the Visual Arts

(Telecommunications and the Web)
(Instructor: Andy Cox/http://twcdc.com/andycox/)

Art511-Electronics and Robotics
(Electronics and Physical Computing)
(Instructor: Michael Shiloh/http://www.teachmetomake.com/teach/portfolio-mich.htm)

Art 412-Computer Applications in Conceptual Design I
(Focus on Processing as the programming environment)
(Instructor: Brad Borevitz-/onetwothree.net)

Digital sketching demo at DAI

DAI graduate student Eugene Wong will be giving a Digital Sketching (PC tablet) demo as part of the IDSA demo series.
Time: Wednesday Oct. 21 -- 1PM
Place: FA 163