Post on 04-Jun-2015
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The Military Industrial Light & Magic Complex
Julian Bleecker, Ph.D.Assistant ProfessorInteractive Media Division, School of Cinema-TVResearch FellowAnnenberg Center for CommunicationUniversity of Southern California
Avoiding Ender’s Folly
Technology, Culture & Entertainment
How are they drawn together?
What makes technology cultural?
What makes a relationship between entertainment and technology?
1. War, Entertainment & Hollywood
Hollywood Film Rallies A Nation To War
Film Stars Take Up The Cause of War
2. Post War — An Immense Military Establishment
Eisenhower Farewell Address
Eisenhower Farewell Address
"This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence-economic, political, even spiritual-is felt in every city, every state house, every office of the Federal government...In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist."
3. Forty Years Later:The Military Industrial Complex?
What is the “complex” today?
Computer Graphics Comes Into Its Own
Ivan Sutherland
Head Mounted Display
Ivan Sutherland
Dave Evans & Ivan Sutherland
University of Utah, Computer Science
Dave Evans & Ivan Sutherland
Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
Evans & Sutherland Solutions
Evans & Sutherland Digistar
E&S Network
Alan Kay ~ PARC/Disney ImagineeringJohn Warnock ~ Adobe/MacromediaNolan Bushnell ~ AtariEd Catmull ~ Pixar/Academy AwardJim Clark ~ SGI/Netscape
SGI -> Industrial Light & Magic
Military Industrial Light & Magic Complex
4. Why Is The Military In Show Business?
Simulation = Rehearsal
Shocking & Awe-Inspiring Performance
Blowing Things Up
Embedded Algorithms To
Knock Things Down
5. Playful Translations Between 2nd Life Into 1st Life: Avoiding Ender’s Folly
How To Couple 2nd Life Worlds & 1st Life Worlds
In A Life Affirming Way?
This is weird
Dance Dance Revolution
Feeding Yoshi
Pet Rock Star
Vis-a-Vis Games
Speculation
Suppose 1st Life Was Connected To 2nd Life
Directly..And We Knew It?
Would That Be An Advancement in Computer Entertainment?
Supppose SimCity Translated From 2nd Life to 1st Life?
Thank You
thx to tiaragirl, callmestream & rom23 for the flickr images. bruce sterling & tim lenoir for inspiration