Worrying, illustrating – and artistically pleasuring

In yesterdays D2 magazine there was an article on children, computer games (specifically fps’). Worries on the relationship between school shootings and (intensive) computer gaming was the central theme. Of course a worrying subject. Although I can’t find any scientifically founded “proofs” of this relationship, I strongly believe that a deeper understanding of it is of importance – primarily to avoid, well, killing. (Although removing physical weapons – i.e. limiting killing enabling devices to a digital world, could also prove to be of success to minimizing school shootings..)

Well, I’m no expert at either school shootings, killing or computer games. But what I found very pleasing is the Immersion project of Robbie Cooper which essentially records video of people (youth) “as seen by the screen” when playing games. I find the technique truly inspiring. The video is absurdly illustrating the games ability to pacify, but also their ability to engage the player, although an engagement that I would characterize as a bit disturbing – although context and design of the video obviously emphasize this intentionally. Well, enough blabbering, watch it for yourself (w/ audio) – it is worth it.

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