LOW POLY DISASTER
by Zebulon Zan
g
Thursday\, January 8\, 12-6 p.m.
Experimental Media P
erformance Lab (xMPL)
Low Poly Disaster explores a brief history of virtual worlds\, focusing on early-2000s life-simulation games that invite players to manage the everyday domestic lives of multiple characters. The work is drawn to how in these games’ player failure —where characters can suffer or die through neglect—becomes central to forms of misplay. In oth erwise nonviolent environments\, players find ways to test the morality of being a “bad” player: withholding care\, causing harm\, and pushing the b oundaries of responsibility inside a world designed for routine.
Pre sented as a large-scale\, projection-based installation\, Low Poly Disaste r reorients the viewer’s position. Instead of the familiar omnipotent\, to p-down perspective\, the audience is placed at a human scale—closer to the characters and their consequences—encountering moments of improper play f ace-to-face.
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Thursday\, January 8\, 12-6 p.m.< br>Experimental Media Performance Lab (xMPL)
Low Poly Disaster \ ;explores a brief history of virtual worlds\, focusing on early-2000s life -simulation games that invite players to manage the everyday domestic live s of multiple characters. The work is drawn to how in these games’ player failure —where characters can suffer or die through neglect—becomes centra l to forms of misplay. In otherwise nonviolent environments\, players find ways to test the morality of being a “bad” player: withholding care\, cau sing harm\, and pushing the boundaries of responsibility inside a world de signed for routine.
Presented as a large-scale\, projection-based in stallation\, Low Poly Disaster \;reorients the viewer’s position. Inst ead of the familiar omnipotent\, top-down perspective\, the audience is pl aced at a human scale—closer to the characters and their consequences—enco untering moments of improper play face-to-face.
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