Mobile components for
playful cultural resistance
Kars Alfrink – The Web and Beyond 2008

Provo
gramschap.nl/provo/chrono/wit.jpg

“…the street finds its own uses for things”
—William Gibson

flickr.com/photos/mallix/2241056021/

flickr.com/photos/clarkmackey/462381004/

Flash Mobs
flickr.com/photos/revcyborg/52850636/ & flickr.com/photos/piccadillywilson/330940825/

“The opposite of play is not work.
It’s depression.”
—Brian Sutton-Smith

“Play is free movement within
a more rigid structure.”
—Katie Salen & Eric Zimmerman

Free Running
flickr.com/photos/jonlucas/204213682/

LED Throwies
flickr.com/photos/iko/357496164/ & flickr.com/photos/urban_data/99808413/

Mario Question Blocks
bladediary.com/questionblocks/q3.jpg

“Processing data is the very essence of what
a computer does. […] Using the computer in
a data-intensive mode wastes its greatest
strength.”
—Chris Crawford

flickr.com/photos/the-small-print/2299675674/ & flickr.com/photos/dpicker/331101373/

“Procedural rhetoric […] arguments are
made not through the construction of words
or images, but through the authorship of
rules of behavior, the construction of
dynamic models.”
—Ian Bogost

September 12
newsgaming.com/games/index12.htm

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flickr.com/photos/vinduhl/2157172876/, flickr.com/photos/mattbrett/1811618085/ & flickr.com/photos/hippie/2221162502/

The British UFO invasion of 1967
Images removed due to rights limitations

flickr.com/photos/nolifebeforecoffee/124659356/

Zona Incerta
youtube.com/watch?v=qGpVgfrYlXU

“These things are far too important to take
seriously.”
—Bill Buxton

Thank you!
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