Talks at Lift2008
There are several talks that were given at this year's Lift conference that I think folks here would enjoy. I curated a track on Games that has some excellent moments from Robin Hunicke (EA) in particular, and also an entertaining description by Paul Barnett, Creative Director at EA Mythic on the relationship between the history of cinema, Las Vegas and video games. Outside of games proper were some other really enlightening talks by Paul Dourish (UC Irvine), Genevive Bell (Intel), Younghee Jung (Nokia Design), Mieke Gerritzen (Visionary-in-Residence at Art Center College of Design), Kevin Warwick (who has hooked his nervous system up to the Internet — yeech..), Kevin Marks (Google) and a curious duo from the Berlin-based Zentrale Intelligenz Agentur including Holm Friebe on new work practices that allow you to follow your heart and save your soul from cubicle death. (That, I think, was probably the most important talk of the entire conference/festival.)
All of the talks are online here:
Here are two to get your started!