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Links: https :// vimeo.com /69769131 https :// vimeo.com /50775463 Paper: Samantha Spreitzer 13 December 2016 ART 346 Professor DeLappe Final Paper Games with a Focus             Video games have been around for decades now; their purpose, however, has for the most part remained the same. More than anything, video games seek to provide entertainment that makes money for the companies that produce them. And yet, that is not always the case. Xuan “Sean” Li and Benjamin Poynter are two video game artists who have taken the medium of games and given them a focus outside the realm of their normal entertainment. Li’s work is focused on mental and physical health through simple concepts, while Poynter’s work is narrative-based and tells powerful stories. Both artists make effective use of games to get their respective points across and show deep thought behind them.    ...

In a nutshell, this documentary is almost entirely about how our perceptions of the world are shaped, and how often the world we ‘see’ is fake. It is reality twisted by those in power in an effort to gain and maintain control over what people see and, thus, what people do and how they react. This is often perpetrated by the government with a technique called ‘perception management’ that makes reality something to be manipulated to suit their needs (like the Reagan administration’s painting of Gaddafi as a terrorist leader and America as a shining moral beacon in the world meant to fight him). This fake reality can interact with other fake realities and inspire their emergence by others (like the Soviet Union’s portrayal of being great and working when it was falling apart, which led to the US thinking it was stronger than it was). These fake realities have led to problems in their futures (like the extreme emergence of suicide bomber terrorists after their initial ...

Music for Dogs Laurie Anderson obviously has a large volume of work to choose from but I felt personally drawn to her performances of “Music for Dogs”. Partly, I know, this is because I love dogs and likely has to do with missing my own, but I liked the idea of performances specifically for dogs. Anderson plays specific sounds at special frequency heard by dogs (and not necessarily by their owners) to get them reacting like people would at a concert. There are points in these videos where the crowds of dogs are either silent or all barking together like people signing along at a concert and it gives me joy to watch.