Erik Champion
@erikmc
Professor of Virtual Heritage & Interactive History, Adelaide University. Researching serious games for heritage & history. OR
CONGRATS TO SPAIN's Football team! Your Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives are eye-opening!
Is Macron getting taller or the other shrinking? They look basically the same height in this Washington post article! www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
I managed to go to France today. Impressive, given I was only meant to be travelling in Belgium!
I can only remember when conferences are now by the related free conference cups
This butterfly took awhile finding the real flowers, hardware stores never think about the poor butterflies!
Last night's Prof Brian Cox talk. Apart from the space colonizing conclusion, Prague bridge in space and the AI modern monumentalism in space images it was great (with P J Harvey music and him breaking into final countdown like the 80s/90s popstar he is)...
My pleasure! There is a book on the actual writing of actual Ludd-ites that a chatbot could use abertzalekomunista.net/images/Libur...
I didn't find one (although I was told there is a podcast podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...) but Google AI helpfully said it would roleplay Ned Ludd for me. I asked it to treat the national archives as its main source and to flag any conflicting or external sources if it used them:
I think I went to the wrong Philosophy department: www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/find...
Yes line manager, of course I feel very efficient in my new (yet old) office with nobody else around, a clutter of books and a clutch of old VR equipment, a large wall monitor, and game DVDs.
"Tower of freedom" in a creepy, beautiful, style that Sauron could have penned. But I'm not one of the convinced that bombs are the answer. It's like we have gone back 100 years. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Sure, if you are interested in actual cars you can find more details about this actual EV (Skoda Epiq). But more importantly, I want to know if one can order the pebbles paint version!
Next time I am asked to tidy up my desk this will be the spark joy inspiration..
And if you aren't in Luxembourg on Monday but near LMU Munich THIS Thursday do I have (another) talk for you! (Image by Sophia Booij, part of her PhD on collections and games). Talk starts at 6PM, Lecture Hall A119, LMU Main Building, Geschwister-Scholl-Pl. 1, Munich.
A photo of a French env. student explaining arctic circle myths in Rovaniemia at midnight on a hill named after 1000 wolverines, while we wait for the aurora (that never arrived). From 2021, when I was a visiting fellow to Jyväskylä...
Is it my imagination or is Jemaine Clement turning over time into a Tintin character? (from www.fastcompany.com/3054716/don-...)
Game Jam in the Garden! We invite GLAM professionals, creatives, researchers & students to design & prototype games inspired by nature, the gardens, & the living world around us. Adelaide Botanic Garden, Goodman Bldg, Hackney Rd Adelaide Fri 7 Nov 9am - 5pm ACDT. events.humanitix.com/game-jam-in-...
#CFP www.digraconference2026.com Intersectional Pleasures Maynooth Ireland 14-18 June 2026. Abstracts due 1 Dec.
The surreal shard edges of gaussian splats are so interesting, I need to find someone with an XGRIDS-3D Reconstruction-Spatial Computing-Handheld Scanner! superspl.at/view?id=ca36...
Where was I? The violinist was playing Ave Maria, I think, if that helps!
Horizon 2025 93.5 billion RI over 2021-27. Europe, I am a bit jealous! (DH2025 opening, Siena)
The Digital Heritage and Web3D conference/a take off tomorrow in Siena Italy.
First impression, remarkably uniform! www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-the-t...