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Art in the Waiting Room

NOTES

First Session:

Labyrinth, non-places (airports, places where you wait)-> Non - Places by Marc Augé https://www.martinparrfoundation.org/product/boring-postcards/ https://board.net/p/Non-Places

“Town labyrinths, again. There's Pisa, I don't know what is labyrinthine about it. Then suddenly, this is like when you are queuing at the airport. At some moment I start to call just about everything a labyrinth.”

“Again processions and processions ... I don't know why processions all of a sudden become labyrinthic. And that's how you walk in an underground train station.” - http://vandal.ist/thesituationisttimes/04/index.html#9/-2.512/116.266http://vandal.ist/thesituationisttimes/04/index.html#9/-2.445/148.773

LIMINAL SPACES - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SX8XMwMw6Y

SOFT DIMENSIONS - Worked with Inara Nevskaya, an architect while @ Volume Magazine, that studies the psychology of how people use space - https://softdimension.wordpress.com/2012/10/08/40/

ANNOTATION -

With Louisa & Floor, we started annotating the existing materials for edition #7 of The Situationist Times. A prevailing theme we all connected with was the idea of the attention economy and how games are built with the purpose to keep us locked in.

My interpretation of the Situationist manifesto

Game Ideas:

Spam bot/chain mail characters waiting room

The limbo of waiting for people to reply/forward emails

Aspects of waiting rooms, bad art, stock furniture etc. Non-places - https://thespinoff.co.nz/art/10-05-2020/art-in-the-waiting-room/

Main themes:

Obsolete Media - Chain mail stories
Non-Places - https://board.net/p/Non-Places
Psychogeography- Unitary urbanism
Goes hand in hand with non-places as they sometimes seem like relics of the past

- linked to the attention economy of gaming? Fast, explosive etc

- Could this be an antithesis to this?

Books:

Non Places - Marc Auge
Boring Postcards - Martin Parr
A Pattern Language - Christopher Alexander, Murray Silverstein, and Sara Ishikawa
Super Normal: Sensations of the Ordinary - Naoto Fukasawa
Blinking and Flapping - Yasuhiro Suzuki
On Lingering - Kirsten Spruit