Nathan Altice
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Nathan Altice
@altice.bsky.social
Game designer, researcher, and archivist. Synth destroyer. Makes old things new. Teaching Professor of Computational Media at UCSC. Wrote I AM ERROR.
what strikes me about ai music is how it reproduces a particular style of mainstream engineering/production. not surprising since i’m sure most folks don’t recognize that part of the artistic equation, but i’m still frustrated that music is decomposed into genre/lyric/instrumentation only
July 18, 2025 at 6:15 PM
eerie how close our lists are, though blue jay way is my #1 and i really like the anthology version of tomorrow never knows
April 24, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Neither am I—only our books are.
April 14, 2025 at 10:35 PM
I'll also add, somewhat immodestly, that I'm on some next-level bullshit with my class slides.
April 14, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I'm using this design to illustrate how Bogost structures the book, i.e., bookending individual examples of game criticism with an opening and closing argument about what game criticism is (and could be).

Ten years on, it's also a nice snapshot of what games were in conversation at the time.
April 14, 2025 at 10:09 PM
A big part of this class is teaching students how to read and analyze difficult texts, whether they be academic papers or magazine images or YouTube videos. But I'm also trying to *demonstrate* the production of arguments using those same media, especially the medium of graphic design via slides.
April 14, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Evocative posing, detailed line work, great colors. Really nice work!
February 21, 2025 at 7:02 AM