[ISEA95] Panel: Peter Lunenfeld — Are We Having Fun Yet?

Panel Statement

Panel: Gender and Technology

Fun is central to the success of digital media. The dour tentacles of dull, gray theory are virtually useless to tease out the essence of why people actually plop themselves down in front of monitors, keyboards, and consoles. The question boils down to how to exploit the potentials of new media to expand our capacities for play and pleasure, without simply recapitulating the gendered genre models that have played themselves out into smoldering embarrassments at the close of the millennium.

  • Peter Lunenfeld is a member of the graduate faculty of the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena. He teaches the history and theory of imaging technologies. He is the founder of “mediawork”: The Southern California New Media Working Group, and is the editor of the forthcoming collection, “The Digital Dialectic: New Essays on New Media” (MIT Press, 1996).