-Why choose that space?
-Attention of awareness
-Placeness/Placelessness
-False perception of virtual location
-How does one locate themselves
-Self-consciousness on many layers
-How does attention play into the work?
-Expectation vs. Execution
-Progression of a series, how do we perceive progress?
-How does the anonymity effect the reception?
-Video soliloquy/monologue
-The mundane as emphasis
-The accident vs. The hand
I had an opportunity to sit in on a seminar w/ Ian Bogost who gave a presentation about his research into platform studies. Below are my unedited notes from his presentation and the ensuing discussion.
materiality
software as materiality
a room on the screen
communities built for a sake of convenience
making [McLuhan] tetrad of natural occurring objects/phenomenon
inherent utility in making things
questions of things is more often a question of human ethics as opposed to question of being
causation is metaphorical
- -reality is a system of illusions that we interpret through metaphor