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Art Games: Performativity and Interactivity

Grabner, Sarah M.
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8801-5244
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1523973549005374

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2018, Master of Arts (MA), Ohio University, Art History (Fine Arts).
This research’s intention is to define and classify what art games are and how these three particular games rely on the audience to activate the artworks, thus making the audience’s interactions essential to complete the artworks. Technology has always impacted the art world and shaped the media that artists experiment with and use. Today, there are many artists who use games as their method for conveying their ideas and messages. This paper will examine how three artists use gaming structures to critique historical and social topics through the audience’s interactions with the artworks’ gaming structures. The three case studies about Pippin Barr’s The Artist is Present, Tale of Tales’ The Path and Wafaa Bilal’s performance Domestic Tension will examine how these artworks exemplify and use the elements of the particular genre of games, art games. Through looking at research done on digital space and the case studies this paper will address how these artworks create a shift from the focus of the artwork being on the creator or artist to how the interactions and performance of the audience complete the works.
Jennie Klein (Advisor)
Mark Franz (Committee Member)
Lee Marion (Committee Member)
116 p.
Art History
Art Games; Interactivity; Performativity; Digital Art; Video Games; Interactive Art; Audience,; Performance

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  • Grabner, S. M. (2018). Art Games: Performativity and Interactivity [Master's thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1523973549005374

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Grabner, Sarah. Art Games: Performativity and Interactivity. 2018. Ohio University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1523973549005374.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Grabner, Sarah. "Art Games: Performativity and Interactivity." Master's thesis, Ohio University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1523973549005374

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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