The Art Wire

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Diese Podcastfolge wurde im Rahmen des Forschungsprojekts "AR Communities" produziert. Host dieser Folge ist Sophia, Projektmitarbeiterin bei AR Communities. Ausnahmsweise wird in dieser Folge von The Art Wire auf Deutsch gesprochen.

In dieser Folge teilt Florian Jindra von der FH Salzburg seine Erkenntnisse zu Augmented Reality, Spieleentwicklung und Technologie-Accessibility. AR wird sowohl als Technologie als auch als Philosophie diskutiert. Zusätzlich sprechen Flo und Sophia über Niederschwelligkeit, Partizipation, verschiedene Softwares, Spiele, gesellschaftliche Veränderung und Verantwortung. Auch geht es um die Frage von Partizipation , also wie man Leute dazu einladen kann, bei Projekten/Game-Entwicklung/Spielen etc. mitzumachen. Im Podcast werden Möglichkeiten angedacht, in den öffentlichen Raum einzugreifen - auch durch Augmented Reality.

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This podcast episode was produced as part of the "AR Communities" research project. Host of this episode is Sophia, project collaborator at AR Communities. Exceptionally, this episode of The Art Wire is spoken in German.

In this episode, Florian Jindra from FH Salzburg shares his insights on augmented reality, game development and technology accessibility. AR is discussed both as a technology and as a philosophy. Additionally, Flo and Sophia talk about low-threshold, participation, different softwares, games, social change and responsibility. Also the question of participation is discussed, i.e. how to invite people to participate in projects/game development/games, etc. In the podcast Flo and Sophia think about possibilities to intervene in the public space - also through augmented reality.

In this Episode gold extra's Reinhold Bidner and Tobias Hammerle discuss about the mystical creature Artificial Intelligence. Will it suck all life out of human artists, before it takes over the petty remains of what we used to call our home planet? Special guests: Hal2023, Skynet, a Kangaroo and a (pretty decent) vampire.

In this sixth episode on the micro publishing series Briefs Damien Crawford tells us how capitalism became the blight of the land in his creation Have-Nots Unforgiving, why gambling is at the center of this creation and why no one else in the world wants to create this kind of games.

In this fifth episode on the micro publishing series Briefs Joshua Hollendonner tells us all about the unholy platformer kerfufle titled Mosa Lina, the art of teaching and the not too trivial task to generate randomized levels that aren't not really random.

In this fourth episode on the micro publishing series Briefs Marta Fijak tells us all about Buildingo, her sinister take on the city building genre: Grab a hammer and ... follow instructions? Yes. You are not in charge. Someone else is. Go and build as you are commanded!

In this third episode on the micro publishing series Briefs Max & Alex Robbins give us an insight into their painful typing game Mondays and how they went about creating this wildly successful corporate email sim.

In this second episode on the micro publishing series Briefs (ETA 6th of July 2022) the game developer and artist in exile Evgeni Puzankov explains us why he made a game about dating a duck assassin with a steel beak that refuses the use of vowels for political reasons.

In this first episode on the micro publishing series Briefs (ETA 6th of July 2022) the narrative designer and translator Eva Jucci talks about her creation, the art of text based labyrinths and, of course, how to pronounce a black Parallelpipedon that one randomly encounters in a yellow field.

gold extra's Charlie Zechenter talks to Aleksandra Jarosz about game development and -psychology.

Aleksandra Jarosz is a Polish game designer and researcher. She speaks about her personal gaming history and how it influenced her game development ideas. Her background in psychology Aleksandra influenced her works Fantastic Fetus (a sarcastic pregnacy Tamagotchi) and Indygo (a game in depression). She shares insights in her projects on psychology in games and the game development of Indygo.

Aleksandra Jarosz is a psychologist and game designer at Purple Lamp Studio, Vienna. Her best known games are Fantastic Fetus and Indygo. Her PhD project at the Academy of Arts, Katowice, explored personality measurement in games.

Reinhold Bidner talks with with Leo Lass from Depart about hyperpoetic approaches and explores uncanny valleys, "actitechture" and downloadable spaces. https://www.depart.at/

"The Art Wire" podcast is created and produced by gold extra.