Nanyi Jiang
Multispecies Futures
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YEAR2020
Live Funeral Service is a speculative service prototype that asks video game players to confront digital violence and deaths. Through providing monthly subscription plans, the service’s vision is to cultivate players' habits of holding funerals whenever they play a game and reflecting on the morality of killing .
The work serves as a reflection on video games’ appropriation of real world meanings’ of death indicates killing and dying have richer meanings than merely execution of computer programs and visual effects. Indeed, digital interactions’ non-physical forms should not negate facts of intentional violence on and killing of other players as well as cyber creatures.
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