State of Play
More football matches have been played in the video game FIFA than on a pitch.
Media exist in multiple forms. As time passes and technology evolves, layers of interpretation construct a living history of an artefact. When subjects are recorded, transmitted and consumed, information is liable to become distorted in translation. These distortions can result in a fundamental change to our perception of its origin and state of being.
Using the evolution of football and video games as an example of this, a number of conversion based experiments aim to identify distortions in the game and materialise or re-enact them in reality. In doing so we explore the possibility of a hyper-mediated form of the game and reveal underlying fallacies present in the media which documents it.
Media exist in multiple forms. As time passes and technology evolves, layers of interpretation construct a living history of an artefact. When subjects are recorded, transmitted and consumed, information is liable to become distorted in translation. These distortions can result in a fundamental change to our perception of its origin and state of being.
Using the evolution of football and video games as an example of this, a number of conversion based experiments aim to identify distortions in the game and materialise or re-enact them in reality. In doing so we explore the possibility of a hyper-mediated form of the game and reveal underlying fallacies present in the media which documents it.
