Fishwick Papers: The "Year of the Dog" Edition

Hi there!Welcome to the end of the week. How was it for you? I get that. Mm. Totally. I was sick in the middle of this week, and spent a lot of time watching The Story of Film on the couch (there are worse things to do). Here at ACMI we're gearing up for a big week of workshopping ideas next week, which should be a lot of fun. Time to get ~Creative~!

Systems and Society

• Oppression in Video Games

• Fringe Festivals are Uber for the arts world

• You didn't make the Harlem Shake go viral, corporations did

• The rise of the systemic game, letting you solve problems in new ways

Computers with Personality

• LOVE TANK and PAIN BOYS: Algorithmically generated knuckle tatts

• 'What Screens Want' thinks about thinking about computers

• Straight from your nightmares, it's an orchestra of Furbies

• An article about chatbots, featuring a chatbot

Captured on film

• How tall is Jake Gyllenhall, exactly? Nobody knows

• How ASIO spied on Indigenous activists in the Cold War

• White microaggressions against black film: awards and why they matter?

Tragedies

• The biggest defeat in American football history: 222 to 0

• Enjoy a luscious sea of blood in the Met Opera's staging of Wagner

• America isn't metric, because of Jefferson, a French botanist, and pirates

R.I.P. Vine of the week

• Mail time

And that will do for now. Thank you to everyone for not pointing out that I forgot to give last week's edition a title. You can call it the "I've been through this week on a Fishwick Papers with no name" edition. As always, please tell your friends to sign up, and I'm always keen to hear your recommendations and feedback.Have a delightful weekend,BYEEEEjim xoxo