Emotion Salon

DEVELOPING projects on EMOTIONS

13 Mar 2006

A salon with Mark Meadows, writer of Pause and Effect, who spoke on his latest project, including a videogame made in collaboration with Radiohead, Annie Lennox and Frank Gehry, two groups of students from the HKU presented research projects on first person shooters and AIBO dogs, and a presentation by Menna Meijer on Sexy, the online community, including the Sexypedia.

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Emotiesalon - Willem Velthoven

Menna Meijer l presented Sexy an online communitity about sex for and by youth. With full access via webcams, SEXYPEDIA, a database of bodies and with sexy TAGS.

Together with the Telematica Institute a group of students from the HKU observed how a group of GERIATRICS behaved once they came in contact with the ROBOTDOG AIBO. The result was a touching film with hilarious moments.




Another group of HKU students researched emotions in FIRSTpersonSHOOTERS with the dutch gaming company GUERILLA. A short report.


Finally, a lecture by Mark Meadows, US, active in the fields of art and design, science and technology, on
- the three part videogame he is developing together with Frank Gehry, Radiohead and Annie Lennox.
- the book he is writing, Simulus & Response: The Art of Digital