How Digital Hybridization Creates New Performance Practices
| Autor: | Anthony Bekirov, Thibaut Vaillancourt |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2023 |
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| Zdroj: | AN-ICON, Vol 2, Iss II (2023) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 2785-7433 46140050 |
| DOI: | 10.54103/ai/19908 |
| Popis: | In this paper, we examine a new set of hybrid ludic practices utilizing cross-media narration that emerged with the rise of the Internet commonly called Alternate Reality Games. However, we propose to coin the term Alternate Virtuality Games (or AVG) as a way to distinguish these digital practices from their real-life counterpart. Viral online AVGs like This House Has People in It (Resnick, 2016) or Ben Drowned (Jadusable, 2010) are emblematic of a horizontal relationship between work and spectator, as well as performance outside of art institutions. The immersiveness of AVGs is unbound by the space and time of a specific happening, and is rather experienced by a multitude of agents at different times and places. This characteristic of being an extra-individual experience as well as being independent from institutions also places AVGs within liminal experiences such as studied by anthropologist Victor Turner. As such, we analyze these hybrid games as a mean for the 21st century spectator to overturn societal status quo through newfound agency. These performing agents get into a subjective state where they can experience and criticize our relationship to digital devices in a society of information and control, without being subjected to it. |
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