A college buddy of mine gave me a heads up on NYU professor, Alexander R. Galloway. An artist and a programmer, Galloway examines the relationship between art, videogames and society. What keeps Galloway from being simply another pouncy academic is not only his experience (dude created networked surveillance tool for the F.B.I.), but his ability to make scholarly riffs on war games actually readable. "Today," he says in an interview, "gaming is the vanguard of culture—all the interesting work on interactivity, narrative, immersion, virtual spaces and networking is all being done in the gaming community. I predict a coming golden age for video games into the next decade not unlike what the cinema experienced in the late 1930s and 1940s." That prediction we've heard before, but I do feel this is a guy with something to say. His next book Gaming: Essays on Algorithmic Culture will be out next year.

Prof. Galloway's Home Page [NYU] Thanks Nick K!

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