Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Digital Art & Literature Seminar - Continuation

3. It is a kind of LARP (live-action role playing), which is an evolution of ARG (alternate reality game). It says on the website (http://bees.netninja.com/staticwiki/beewiki/TheFAQ) that originally people used alternate reality games (ARG) to pretend to be characters of a story and to create a narrative together as a group. If the players were in disagreement with what was going to happen next in the story, dice were rolled and other rules were applied to resolve the matter. The next step was LARP, where people started recreating the stories they made together: they started to act out these stories in public. The players in LARP can either be themselves or characters, and a coordinator is chosen to show the players the mysteries that need to be solved.

4. The project Implementation uses Internet art, conceptual art, situationist theatre, sticker art among other arts. It is basically a novel that deals with the notion of place as well as many other concepts, and it is demonstrated by placing different pieces of texts in chosen locations in order to produce meaning.

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