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Ok, so here’s a fun one (sincerely!). We’re all on COVID 19 lockdown, our gigs and jobs have been cancelled, and so we had on SPC Weir to talk about a video game art installation he and Ben showed in Toronto in February. Along the way we talk a
Interview szn, bb. The Real Erin Gee drops knowledge on ASMR, electronic music and affect in the circus of contemporary technology. Erin shares her casual brilliance with us, a beer, and her galaxy-brained pups. Find Erin:https://eringee.net
In this episode we talk about all things flightsim and spiritual succession. We talk about the Yes Men’s SimCopter ‘himbo’ intervention and Cat and Jon’s new game, produced for the Global Game Jam, Co-op Copter Scab. We also talk about the RCMP
2020 is interview season for the pod. This week we speak to Sagan Yee, who talks about their collaborative art and video game practice, their role in running the not for profit Hand Eye Society, and the relatively recent emergence of labour pol
“And what I now see is that the new virtual world that our children are growing up in is so addictive precisely because it satisfies the need for reply and response, and because it does so immediately. In this way the virtual penetrates to the
A special episode with activist, playwright, gig-worker and union organizer Thomas McKechnie. Thomas talks about the under-reported case before the Ontario Labour Relations Board between Foodora and its employees. He also takes us through strat
And we’re back. Cat takes us on an art history tour of late-medieval Paris vis-a-vis Ubisoft’s virtual Notre Dame Cathedral, constructed for Assassin’s Creed Unity. Etienne Boileau’s “Le Livre des Metiers,” written in 1268 outlines regulation
“Every new technology necessitates a new war.”— Marshall McLuhanWe have SPC. Cale Weir back for a AAA Let’s Play of Counter Strike. The gang talks about passé discourse, the myth and intoxication of war, while Ben and Cale get a little drunk
‘Everything is permitted, but nothing is possible.’-- Michel ClouscardColdwar, dystopia, americophilia, the posttruth world, reality control, sonic the hedgehog, furries, vorelords, stealing videogame valour. It’s all here, and also is not.
“Artists talk a lot about freedom. So, recalling the expression “free as a bird,” Morton Feldman went to a park one day and spent some time watching our feathered friends. When he came back, he said, ‘You know? They’re not free: they’re fightin
“Everyday’s leg day now, bro.”— James L. BurlingThe gang is paying their dues in the attention economy and doing a play through of the much anticipated release from Hideo Kojima and Sony, Death Stranding. For this episode we’re joined by SPC
‘If the reader wishes to see shortly whether [it is true that the pleasure in this world outweighs the pain], let him compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is engaged in eating the other.’ — Arthur SchopenhauerWe’re i
‘My savant boy is only as good as the game he plays.’ Ian ChengThe gang talks sandboxes, compare credentials, white flight, urban blight, Will Wright, Ian Cheng, SimCity 2k and desperately apply topical political references to whatever circum
We discuss our experience at the Ryerson conference on 'VR as Empathy Machine' and take up our ambivalence about the medium. We offer several lukewarm cultural critical takes on contemporary digital media and the supposed connection to the real
In episode 1 the Spek Work gang discusses the goals of the new pod, its themes and format. We talk about Foodora workers unionizing, and do a playthrough of the No Frills browser-based game, Aisles of Glory: Back to School. Hiiiii!ARTIST STUD
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