These blogs all deal from different perspectives with areas of research that I am particularly interested in. They record not only my ruminations on subjects such as artificial and augmented reality, digital production and design, puppetry and performance but more importantly they document my student's projects throughout the years, effectibly becoming an extraordinary open repository of resources, ideas, failures and successes that are in themselves the most significant story.
Although there is a fair amount of crossover among the blogs iMachina deals mostly with Research and Practice in Virtual Worlds, and you will see a lot of posts related to cyborgs, ethics, education in virtual environments, marketing and yes, machinima.
Interactive Storytelling deals with games and other digital media, like virtual worlds and Social Networks as they become the most prevalent form of mobile communication, entertainment and community organizing in the 21st Century. As we huddle around the virtual hearth represented by our communication devices, participation and storytelling become a fundamental driver of interactivity.
Experimental Performance Hybrids is my oldest blog where I started documenting the first multinational collaborative project with 5 continents in a performance which was groundbreaking and was feautured in SIGGRAPH 2005. After that I created a DIY program at the University of Florida and gave it the name of the blog. It was one of the most succesful and sought after interdisciplinary programs until it was cancelled due to the expansion of some other facilities that required the loaned space. Then in 2008 I started meticulously documenting one of my most challenging projects, and autonomous robotic marionette. This is probably my most personal blog.