Capstone Project (Abu Dhabi) – Spring Show 2020 /shows/spring2020/ Mon, 14 Dec 2020 18:40:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 Simulacra: Social Media Daring Game /shows/spring2020/simulacra-social-media-daring-game/ /shows/spring2020/simulacra-social-media-daring-game/#respond Mon, 18 May 2020 03:47:25 +0000 https://itp.nyu.edu/shows/spring2020/simulacra-social-media-daring-game/ Continue reading "Simulacra: Social Media Daring Game"

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This Daring Game is a 2 player experience that challenges users to complete dares of increasing difficulty in their social media accounts to invite people to reconsider their attachment to their online personas.

Maria Calderon

Screenshot of how the daring game looks like. Users are in Round 3 and are dared to "take a selfie and share it in your Snapchat story with no context. 2 girls sit in front of each other with their computers and phones on their hand. Photo of a computer showing a sample of the Daring Game, while a person sits at it with a phone on their hand
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKZYv2R5aT8&feature=emb_title

Description

The Social Media Daring Game is a two-player experience that challenges users to complete dares of increasing difficulty in their social media accounts. By challenging people to do a series of dares, this experience invites them to reconsider their attachment to their online personas and also have a sense of how these have the potential to unconsciously frame their perception of themselves. The experience starts with players being asked to submit which social media platforms they use in order to give each user dares that correspond with these. Once the game starts, players are then challenged to fulfill three rounds of dares, starting in the first round with low-risk dares which then increase in difficulty each round. Along with trying to complete three dares under a set amount of time, users also have the choice to swap dares with each other or give up. At the end, players are given a reward depending on the number of dares they complete. Initially, the reward was meant to be a series of stickers with the phrase “I share, therefore I am”, which for me encompasses the sheer influence that social media has had in our society.

IM Abu Dhabi
IM-UH.4001
Capstone Project (Abu Dhabi)
Play/Games
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Simulacra: Infinite Scroll /shows/spring2020/simulacra-infinite-scroll/ /shows/spring2020/simulacra-infinite-scroll/#respond Mon, 18 May 2020 03:47:21 +0000 https://itp.nyu.edu/shows/spring2020/simulacra-infinite-scroll/ Continue reading "Simulacra: Infinite Scroll"

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Infinite Scroll is an interactive installation that seeks to address mindless scrolling in social media by extending the feed outside of the phone and into user's physical surroundings, ultimately bringing them to question how much of what they scrolled through they actually remember.

Maria Calderon

iPhone mounted on wall with projected Twitter feed coming out of it and filling the wall Photo of girl in front of a phone, with the scrolling feed extending out into the wall Close up shot of iPhone mounted on wall with projected Twitter feed surrounding it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwcnEoWgNUw&feature=emb_title

Description

With social media platforms’ infinite scroll capabilities, most people have become desensitized to the sheer amount of information and emotions they are exposed to in their online feeds, quickly scrolling or swiping past content that does not instantly draw their attention.

Infinite Scroll is an interactive installation that seeks to address this mindless scrolling by extending the feed outside of the phone, allowing users to see all the content they have scrolled through. This experience prompts users to scroll on a phone as they would normally do, yet as it is done, keeps the scrolled feed visible as a projection that flows out of the phone, engulfing the wall. Face to face with all the content they glanced at, users are encouraged to question how much of it they actually retained, and to reflect on what this means as it becomes increasingly easy to disregard content in social media feeds.

IM Abu Dhabi
IM-UH.4001
Capstone Project (Abu Dhabi)
Art
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