Chapter 8
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Playing Politics: Machinima as live performance and document |
Authors
Abstract
In this chapter, I will describe several of my online and mixed reality works of interventionist performance in games and virtual communities, addressing aspects of the presentation of these works in both real world and virtual contexts. In examining the efficacy of these works the author will argue for an expanded consideration of the term machinima to include not only the recording and editing of raw footage of performance events for documentary purposes, but the consideration of the experience of such performances both in game and through projections in a physical performance environment, such ingame/inworld actions before live and virtual audiences functioning effectively as a new type of real-time, live machinimatic performance.