I’m Robert Cooksey and this site aggregates some of the stuff that I do. I like to do stuff. I’m an instructor for Game Art + Design in the Department of Computer Animation at the Ringling College of Art and Design and am currently writing my dissertation in Philosophy at the European Graduate School. I try to remain diligently engaged in the world unfolding around me and to be continuously learning. I’m particularly interested in all things pertaining to strategy and performance.
I was born a small, fragile, larval human. Over time the bodily systems improved and gained complexity, and –before long– consciousness emerged. Fine motor control shortly followed. Since then, I’ve processed a LOT of information and learned to do a number of things. My bones stopped growing around 1990. Since then, I’ve been exploring the world as a free-roaming organism independent of its progenitors. I’ve done stuff. People have paid me for some of it. That was cool. Sometimes I climb things. Sometimes I jump in a number of prepositional relationships to things (over, off, out of, etc.). More often, I subject myself to great physical discomfort in pursuit of fighting skills. Over the years, I spent a lot of time in classes and seminars and got some degrees for it. In general, I spend a lot of time trying to become a better human.
These days, I think a lot about the media in which I have been embedded for most of my life. I write about much of it. I realized at some point that open questions intrigued me and I had some facility for problem solving, modeling, strategy, assessment, and general engaged thinking. Now, I’m doing a lot of that for game art and design and various interactive spaces. I also teach this to others. Now people pay me to do that. I like that. It allows me to buy food. I like food. It can be quite pleasurable and it supplies the energy necessary to keep doing stuff.
This blog mostly concerns some of that stuff — in particular, stuff about games, technology, philosophy, design, strategy, human performance, physical training, cuisine, and other particulars of an artificial life. In the pages on this site, you’ll find feeds of some of my activity out there, links for students, and the blog posts that are some first steps at processing the raw activity of experience.
