I gave a presentation at a New York Arts, Culture and Technology meetup gathering themed around Gaming and the Arts…thanks so much Julia and Brad for inviting me. The event was very lively and all the presentations, including mine, centered around themes of games, system thinking, art, culture and education.

My presentation was a look at a few examples of how the tropes that games have adapted from other arts and resynthesized to allow for interactivity are now, in turn, affecting practitioners of those other arts.

There are so many examples — but I pulled a few that I was familiar with, centered around film, music and theater. I think the fact that critics so consistently reach for words like “cross between …, like … plus …” to describe so many of these cross-genre productions indicates that we’re on the verge of a new vocabulary for these mashups of the arts. And I am so excited for a bigger, bolder, and more mainstream future for all of these explorations into artistic interactivity.