We Don’t Understand The Computer as a Medium of Expression
Chris Crawford
18 décembre 201817h - 18h
While we have achieved grand things using the computer as a tool for creating expressions in traditional fields, such as graphics, animation, cinema, music and literature, we have spectacularly failed to utilise the computer itself as a medium of expression. The solution to this problem is to stop perceiving reality as a collection of objects and start perceiving it as a system of processes.
Biography
Chris Crawford has designed and built 14 computer games. He ran games research at Atari in 1983. He wrote the first book on Computer Game Design. He wrote and published the first periodical on Game Design. He founded the Game Developers Conference and ran it for the its first years. He has five published books, many articles and papers for periodicals to his name, and has lectured all over the world on the problems of Game Design. He has built a technology for interactive storytelling.