Sigils #32

Alix Desaubliaux is interested in building narratives inside the virtual environments of Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs), and in exploring the concept of the “Magic Circle” and its connection with both ancestral rituals, and the interaction between humans and their physical surroundings. Popularized by Johan Huizinga in his book “Homo Ludens" (1938), the magic circle is a physical (or currently, virtual) space in which actions have a specific meaning because they are part of a game. Taken further, this idea leads to considering how every space in our society is subject to a set of explicit or implicit rules and codes, so that we are all, in a certain...View all