Research Art and Video Game

Cédric Parizot (1) , Douglas Edric Stanley (2)

1 IREMAM - Institut de Recherches et d'Etudes sur les Mondes Arabes et Musulmans
2 ESA AIX - Ecole supérieure d'Art d'Aix en Provence

This article reviews the process of conception and development of a documentary and artistic video game: A Crossing Industry. This game focuses on the operations of the Israeli separation regime in the West Bank during the three years following the second Intifada (2007-2010). Still in development, it is being produced by a transdisciplinary team composed of an anthropologist (Cédric Parizot), an artist (Douglas Edric Stanley), a philosopher (Jean Cristofol) and ten students at the École supérieure d’art d’Aix-en-Provence. In this contribution, we discuss how game video technology has allowed the team to use a documentary approach to model ethnographic analysis, using artistic conceptualization with its own aesthetic and poetic issues.

Mots clés: apparatus; art; digital art; distanciation; device (dispositif); ethnography; borders; Intifada; Israel; video games; Palestine; walls; research; mobility regime; procedural rhetoric

Domaines: Anthropologie sociale et ethnologie; Art et histoire de l'art

Cédric Parizot, Douglas Edric Stanley. Research Art and Video Game: Ethnography of an Extra-disciplinary Exploration. antiAtlas Journal, 2016, #01, ⟨10.23724/AAJ.9⟩. ⟨halshs-01528858⟩