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I ordered a recently published book of Acconci’s early writings today. When you write code on a daily basis you see similarities to other writing all the time. Acconci’s writing, which is linked to performance, is suggestive because, like code, it provides an operational definition. That definition may be approximate or precise, influenced by random events or not. As potentially “actionable” script, it is concerned with public and private implications / scope. It approaches participants behaviorally; not unlike video game avatars. At this point, it is clear that this is more than coincidence.
As artists code the behavior of avatars into artworks, as small game developers seek to carve a place amongst dominant genres modelling themselves after the film industry, there is a strange aligning of historical circumstances that runs deeper than the usual comparisons made between performance art and virtual reality.
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