Robert Gay: DXARTS 470 Final Project Documentation

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ABSTRACT

Arg & Bash!

Robert Gay (2008)

It is when the motivating expectation of sociability in cyberspace confronts the essential ambiguity and facelessness of the Internet medium that the resulting interactions begin to take on a distinctive shape, bringing the cultural contours of this space into view.  As participants adjust to the prevailing conditions of anonymity and to the potentially disconcerting experience of being reduced to a detached voice floating in an amorphous electronic void, . . . an imaginative engagement by which they become fully vested co-producers of the virtual worlds that they inhabit, and the boundaries distinguishing "real" from "virtual" experience begin to fade.

            -David Porter (Introduction of Internet Culture)

      Arg & Bash!  is a testament to the use of modern technology as an extension of ourselves and, consequently, our ability to communicate.  Through the use of language, physical space, and sound, the two “detached floating voices” mirror the becoming of hostility we tend to exhibit when confronted by the other faceless "cyber-beings."

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