Games of Appropriation

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To perceive an object, one actively draws any past experiences that may contribute to constructing the 3D representation of the object in brain. This type of knowledge is called, according to Alva Noë, sensorimotor knowledge. It acts like a bridge connecting what one sees and what one perceives and is constantly being accumulated through all types of activities.

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In this project, I have produced a series of games where I explore the opportunities that the process of accumulating new sensorimotor knowledge brings to the creation of new materials and images by treating history as a working material. In the games, players can move, rotate, and stack architectural precedents. These behavioral inputs result in infinite output images and materials, which are dynamically used in the scenes to change how they are perceived. As players accumulate more and more knowledge about a game, they will start to understand the correlations between the qualities of the architectural precedents, the qualities of the newly generated images, and the spatial qualities of the scene reshaped by the images. The games become creativity tools as gamers achieve more agency through reflection.

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