26/08: Reading Class : the Online Blog/Game that Explores Class in America
Category: Submissions
Posted by: coyoteyip
http://www.coyoteyip.com/readingclass/
Reading Class is a demonstration of media art used to create what Joseph Beuys called “social sculpture”- tangible engagement with the intangible elements that shape our lives. Reading Class is a multimedia game built inside a blog, and directs this social software to the social question of class. Reading Class explores the idea of class as an emergent taxonomy, a self-organizing system, by taking participants on a journey of cultural choices and values. Participants' class identity and class mobility are measured against fixed sociological markers and against the relativistic movement and perception of other participants as measured in real-time, allowing their score (class reading) to change even after they are finished playing.
Reading Class is a demonstration of media art used to create what Joseph Beuys called “social sculpture”- tangible engagement with the intangible elements that shape our lives. Reading Class is a multimedia game built inside a blog, and directs this social software to the social question of class. Reading Class explores the idea of class as an emergent taxonomy, a self-organizing system, by taking participants on a journey of cultural choices and values. Participants' class identity and class mobility are measured against fixed sociological markers and against the relativistic movement and perception of other participants as measured in real-time, allowing their score (class reading) to change even after they are finished playing.