25/04/2019
Engagement in museum-going, attention to the (distant) presence of strangers, using agency and affect for good.
This checks so many many boxes for me.
_and_ the subtle details are worthy of Nina-form larps*: the way focus is enforced through suggestion, the use of a voice that sounds (to my ears) like a person of colour, the way the app manages your attention (as the person giving or receiving the gift).
Not surprised to see U Nottingham, Copenhagen & Uppsala on this. Great job!
*Nina-Runa Essendrop, Danish larp designer producing meditative explorations into subjectivity and social / cultural development
GIFT is a three-year research project that started in January 2016. Working with our long-term collaborators at the University of Nottingham's Mixed Reality…