The material world of digital fictions

• Authors: Justyna Janik

Abstracts

EN

This paper explores the interdependency between digital matter and the representational or mimetic layer of the digital game object. The main aim is to foreground the mechanisms by which the representationalelements of the game world emerge from the materiality of the process of play. These mechanisms are examined from the perspective of the ontology of the game object. The issue of digital materiality will be linked with the aesthetical explorations of Tadeusz Kantor, who emphasised the relation between the materiality of the theatre and its fictional elements. As the main example of this analysis, I will focus on Undertale (Toby Fox, 2015) as an example of a game that plays with the boundaries between the fictional world being presented and the elements of digital materiality that are usually hidden from the player’s sight.

Keywords

EN

digital materiality; Tadeusz Kantor; fiction; Undertale

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Images. The International Journal of European Film, Performing Arts and Audiovisual Communication
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 29
• Issue: 38
• Pages: 57-72

Dates

published

2021

Contributors

author

Justyna Janik

• Wydział Zarządzania i Komunikacji Społecznej Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego w Krakowie

• https://orcid.org/0000000273954492

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/i.2021.38.04

Biblioteka Nauki

1955346