The Comforting Fiction of the Digital Archive There’s a quiet confidence that shapes how we move through the internet today, a kind of muscle memory that tells us everything we need is already online. We don’t question it. We don’t &hell...
Beere, C.A. (1990) Sex and Gender Issues: A Handbook of Tests and Measures. New York: Greenwood Press. The Sexual Opinion Survey (SOS), summarized in Beere’s handbook, remains relevant despite its age because it provides one of the e...
I’ve spent years as an artist navigating the tension between authorial control and player agency. I texture characters, build shader networks, and encode symbolic meaning into every visual surface. But recently, I’ve been...
When Morton Heilig unveiled the Sensorama in 1962, he imagined a multisensory cinema that overwhelmed the senses rather than invited participation (Heilig, 1992). His Tele sphere Mask, the first head-mounted display, reinforced this...
Video game characters live or die by their eyes. This is not hyperbole but a material reality rooted in both evolutionary biology and computational design. Research in cognitive neuroscience demonstrates that human visual processing...
When I first encountered Laura Mulvey’s idea of the male gaze, it struck me as a powerful lens for understanding how women are represented in visual culture. Mulvey argued that mainstream cinema often positions women as objects of...
The lecture sparked a profound exploration of identity. Questions emerged about sexuality, context, and perspective. But what if we turn the question inward? What does it mean to remain the same person across time? This inquiry draws from...
It was only yesterday when I spoke to the professor (Rosa) during one of her lecture breaks regarding signs in code and whether it would be a good topic to write about in one of my blogs. She...
Let’s talk about realism. Realism in digital media is no longer about mimicking the real world; it’s about constructing realistic systems that one can relate to emotionally and that are symbolically true. As games and VR...
Inspired by Carlos A. Scolari A quiet revolution is unfolding in the way stories are told: not through louder spectacles or faster edits, but through the migration of narrative across media ecosystems. A character born in a comic might...
