Arts Journal: The Daily Digest of Arts, Culture & Ideas

ArtsJournal is a weekday digest of some of the best arts and cultural journalism in the English-speaking world. Each day ArtsJournal combs through more than 200 English-language newspapers, magazines and publications featuring writing about arts and culture.

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May 15 , 2006

Playground, as you could mean by looking at it and interpreting the word as it is, and this has to be said, is not just a virtual back flash into the playroom in which you've been spending hours building towers with wooden bricks or something called lego back in the old times, it is much more a psycho-social experience (I've just invented this to make it sound more dramatic, so don't blame for using non existing expressions). Read more on Playground's website. Playground was built by christian schneider with processing.

December 14, 2005

Play-Create is an interactive media initiative that sees a vision of publishing entertainment multimedia in the same way that we consume music, film and other formats. Born out of a principle that computer-game technology need not just pander to superficial violent and hyper-active pursuits, Play-Create poses the hypothetical questions: What is the interactive equivalents of classical music? What is to a plasma screen what paint is to a canvas?

Online samples:
play-create.com
showstudio.com
danielbrowns.com

December 5, 2005