In the beginning, there was nothing
It's been a long time in coming, but I have finally put the finishing touches on the Click Nothing Tour 2009.
It's going to be a long and complex one, but it should be fun. One talk, seven cities, ten days.
The talk, as detailed in a previous post, is about changing notions of what immersion means in the context of social and cultural shift in the face of technological change and generational change.
The dates and locations, for those who might be intertested in attending, are as follows (though not all are open to the public):
Sunday, October 25th, 9:30 am
GameX Convention, Keynote
(details)Monday, October 26th, 3:30 pm
ETC Carnegie MellonWednesday, October 28th, 4:00 pm
MIT, GAMBIT Game Lab
(details)Thursday, October 29th, 6:00 pm
NYU, New York
(details pending)Monday, November 2nd
SCAD Savannah
(details pending)Monday, November 3rd
SCAD and IGDA Atlanta
(details)
For a walkthrough of the tour, you can drop this into Google Earth. If you're on Dopplr, friend me and you'll see the specific dates I expect to be around in which towns. If you're on Facebook and/or Twitter, friend or follow me and you'll be able to keep tabs on my frequent updates.
Since I already gave an early version of the talk at Ubi, here in Montreal, the Twitter stream for the tour and its collected talks is live if you want to listen in on #CNTour09.
Hopefully, if you had any interest at all in listening to my demented ramblings, I will be coming to somewhere vaguely near where you live - drop by and see the talk and harrass me with questions that I won't be able to answer and then we have a drink and talk less seriously.
If I'm still not coming anywhere near you or if you have to go to your cousin's wedding on the night I am passing through your city - don't worry. I am currently in the process of building out video for many of my previous talks - including this one - and I hope that over the coming months you'll have access to this material in video format that you can watch in your underwear while eating ice cream, or on your iPhone on the bus - or both.
Hope to see you somewhere between here and 32 degrees North latitude.
(No, I don't have t-shirts, but I promise if I survive this and do it again next year, I will have some made.)
Holy crap! I didn't know you were even leaving the north! I am so there for the Atlanta event. Looking forward to it!
Posted by: Simon Ferrari | October 21, 2009 at 08:45 PM
I hope you take good notes Simon.
Posted by: Ben Abraham | October 21, 2009 at 09:18 PM
@Ben: I don't take notes, bro. I internalize.
I'll dump a beer on the SCADlanta lawn for you!
Posted by: Simon Ferrari | October 23, 2009 at 11:43 AM
Any chance you'll be in Toronto?
Posted by: Andrew | October 26, 2009 at 02:54 PM
Audio recording from the GameX keynote is up at - http://www.igda.org/forum/clint-hockings-talk-gamex
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Posted by: Nick Smolney | November 06, 2009 at 03:00 PM