DigiPlay 4: Teaching with, Learning from Computer Games

Friday 28th January 2005
London Knowledge Lab
23-29 Emerald Street
London

Circuits: a video essay on virtual and actual play

Seth Giddings

Documenting two young boys’ engagement with the simulated environments and gameplay of Lego Racers 2 both on and off screen, this video essay identifies a number of circuits of signification and playful activity: between game rules and emergent, exploratory play in the computer game; between play with simulated action / space and play between children in actual space; between play with virtual toys and play with actual toys; between software and bodies.

Seth Giddings is Senior Lecturer in Digital Media and Critical Theory at the University of the West of England. He writes on popular film, animation, media technology, videogames and videogame play, and is a co-author of New Media: A Critical Introduction (Lister et al. 2003).

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