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Art in the Waiting Room

NOTES

SESSIONS WITH LIDIA & STEVE:

Labyrinth, non-places (airports, places where you wait)-> Non - Places by Marc Augé

“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 architect, Inara Nevskaya, for Volume, that studies the psychology of how people use space - [Soft Dimensions ]

ANNOTATION METHODS:

_ZINE: 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.
_TWINE: Using Twine 2, I added new layers of annotation, introducing the concept of non place into the Situationist discussion. [SITU ANNO]

PROTOTYPING:

Translating concepts and research into how things can manifest in a gameplay : https://pad.xpub.nl/p/visceralfacades

My interpretation of the Situationist manifesto
Marc Auge research
Visual characteristics of a Non-place
Figuring out the concept and areas of interest for a game

Game Ideas:

Martin Parr - Boring Postcards

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/

Create a Situationist non-place

"Concentration of culture, located in a single building" Situationist Manifesto ---> cannot get the malls out of my head

The affordance possibilities of a waiting room. Gamify the non-place, what can you do with sparsely scattered interiors of transitory space?

FROM MATT:

"maybe its worth considering the sounds of non-spaces too, like the ambient noise of cars in the distance, service counters, toilet flushes etc along with the muzak that is dispersed into the environment"

A seemingly regular non-place (torn between the waiting room and an airport terminal). The player has to click the boring objects of the interior and create new affordances to create a state of play. What can a chair do? What about the non-offensive ambient music? Can this be disrupted?

Can a non-place become an opportunity for the situationists? How would this look?

LINK DUMP

[Research PAD ]

Itch.io

Main themes:

Obsolete Media - Chain mail stories
Non-Places - https://board.net/p/Non-Places
Psychogeography- Unitary urbanism
Performative use of space - Skateboarding
Affordance vs intention

- 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
A Pattern Language - Christopher Alexander, Murray Silverstein, and Sara Ishikawa
Skateboarding and the City: A Complete History - Iain Borden
Planned Obsolescence - Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Boring Postcards - Martin Parr
Super Normal: Sensations of the Ordinary - Naoto Fukasawa
Blinking and Flapping - Yasuhiro Suzuki
On Lingering - Kirsten Spruit
Concrete Island - J.G. Ballard
The Production of Space - Henri Lefebvre