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Videogame Avaria discussion and gameplay – Andrew Linde interview
Andrew Linde worked in the music industry until he decided to commit himself full-time to indie game development. He’s been working on Avaria for a few years now and we talked about the game and its development at Super Magfest 2019.
Scene by scene analysis of The Orville S2E1 – Part I – ArtandDesignSff (Episode 89)
Today I deviate from my normal interview format and instead do a scene by scene analysis of Season 2 Episode 1 of one of my favorite shows, The Orville. I look at the concepts, artistic design, writing, characters and mention an Easter egg or two I fo...
Sci-fi tv show book – “The World of the Orville” (Titan Books, 2018) – Jeff Bond interview – ArtandDesignSff (Episode 88)
Jeff Bond has written multiple books on science fiction shows and movies. He was executive editor of Geek magazine, Senior Editor at CFQ, and he writes about film music for the Hollywood Reporter. We talked about his recent book on the show The Orville...
Supernatural Horror studies book – “New Directions in Supernatural Horror Literature” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) – Sean Moreland interview – ArtandDesignSff (Episode 87)
Sean Moreland teaches English at the University of Ottowa. His main field of research is Anglo-American literature from the late 18th century to present. He particularly enjoys Gothic, horror and weird fiction and is involved with various journals and ...
Japanese mystery fiction book – “Old Crimes, New Scenes” (Published by MerwinAsia; distributed by the University of Hawaii Press, 2018) – Charles Exley and Michael Tangeman interview – ArtandDesignSff (Episode 86)
Charles Exley and Michael Tangeman are academics who both study Japanese language and literature. They both have an interest in Japanese mystery fiction and the three of us spoke about their latest project,
Video games studies book – “The Toxic Meritocracy of Video Games” (University of Minnesota Press, 2018) – Chris Paul interview – ArtandDesignSff (Episode 85)
Christopher Paul teaches at the Seattle University where he focuses on applying tools rooted in rhetorical analysis to elements of new media, especially video games. We discussed his latest book on meritocracy in video games.
Supernatural fiction studies book – “A Feeling of Wrongness” (Penn State University Press, 2018) – Joe Packer interview – ArtandDesignSff (Episode 84)
Joe Packer is a communications academic and became interested in how pessimism is expressed in popular culture. He co-wrote a book on the subject and we discussed it. 0:56 – Joe talks about how he got into writing about pessimism in popular culture.
Horror movie history book – “The Howling: Studies in the Horror Film” (Centipede Press, 2018) – Lee Gambin interview – ArtandDesignSff (Episode 83)
Lee Gambin has been writing about movies and especially horror movies for the last 15 years. We spoke about his latest book on the famous werewolf horror movie “The Howling.” 0:49 – Lee talks about how he got into studying and writing on “The Howling.
Artificial Intelligence academic – “How Smart Machines Think” (MIT Press, 2018) – Sean Gerrish interview – ArtandDesignSff (Episode 82)
Sean Gerrish is a software engineer and has worked as an engineer for Teza Technologies and as an engineering manager for machine learning and data science teams at Google. We spoke about his latest book on machine learning.
Latin American horror movies – “The Migration and Politics of Monsters in Latin American Cinema” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) – Gabriel Eljaiek-Rodriguez interview – ArtandDesignSff (Episode 81)
Gabriel Eljaiek-Rodriguez teaches Spanish and Latin American studies at the New School in Atlanta, GA. We spoke about his latest book on the politics of Latin American horror films. 1:04 – Gabriel talks about how he got into studying horror and monstro...