We’re just about to fire off with the next season of our Monthly series of ‘videogame’ shows over at Antenna, GameCityNights. When we started them last year we were hoping to have an easy-to-organise, lightweight hang-out once a month to share some interesting stuff and provide a safe-haven for geeks at least once a month late night [...]

Jimmy and I are talking at the Bridport* page to Screen festival next month delivering “..a cocktail of music, action and cultural theory.” Details can be found here. *Long time followers of poorly attended fringe theatre may recall my last performance at the Bridport Arts Centre back in the late 90′s. This time, no-one will [...]

Getting very excited about being able to get on with the first monthly event out of GCHQ, and particularly excited that the brilliant Hello Games are coming up to launch the season with us. I think this series of shows is going to act as a really useful prototyping ground for some of the things [...]

Ace. Notes: You only really need one camera.

I just watched the keynote for the global game jam event for 2010, which was delivered by my friend Ste. It’s disarming, lyrical, courageous, vulnerable and not really what you might expect from a videogame event keynote, which I why I think it’s brilliant. Global Game Jam ’10 Keynote from Ste Curran on Vimeo.

We’ve been having lots of meeting about the show. I mean, lots. I’m not really a big meeting lover so usually this would be particularly difficult. This last few weeks though, have been fantastic as a whole lot of new names have entered my address book. This week alone there’s been stadiums, olympics, design, editors [...]

2010. Despite the snow, something of a frenzy so far this year. All machines flattened and formatted with Snow Leopard, all archive data properly organised, active dropbox folder wholly ordered, omnifocus engaged and even occasionally used, iPhoto library de-duped even DevonThink working nicely and syncing across machines. I’m now diving down into a frenzied few weeks [...]

Lee has pretty much captured the key tapes from GC4 now, and there now resides hours – possibly even days – of footage from the show on the studio drobo. One of the plans we’ve been chipping away at for months now is the gradual release of all of the archive material, and it seems [...]

Things are suddenly, rapidly coming into focus. Following the show, we spend a lot of time gathering feedback, anecdote, praise, complaint – and then try and order it into something we can learn from. More often than not, the complaints tend to be the same ones that we would levy against ourselves. This year in [...]

A strange meeting yesterday, in which some Consultants presented their findings from an initial research exercise examining the state of Digital Inclusion in Nottingham and how it can be improved. To begin with, they presented a context statement laying the a broad definition of Digital Inclusion / exclusion and what it could mean to the [...]