The Threshold of the real: A Site for Participatory Resistance in Blast Theory’s Uncle Roy All Around You (2003) | Zendy

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The Threshold of the real: A Site for Participatory Resistance in Blast Theory’s <i>Uncle Roy All Around You</i> (2003)

Author(s) -

Kate Adams

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

body space and technology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.106

H-Index - 2

ISSN - 1470-9120

DOI - 10.16995/bst.172

Subject(s) - reflexivity , immersion (mathematics) , citizen journalism , resistance (ecology) , sociology , aesthetics , art , art history , epistemology , philosophy , political science , law , mathematics , social science , ecology , biology , pure mathematics

This article examines the collision of virtual and real spaces through simultaneous live and online play in Uncle Roy All Around You, and how this disruption of immersion is used to expose the habitual engagements associated with the digital interface. The nature of the participants' immersion and the subsequent reintegration into the real will be explored, before attempting to articulate what defines this piece as politically resistant, through discussion of a self reflexive participation, which undermines what Baudrillard terms the 'simulated response' (Baudrillard 1985/1988 p.216)

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