It was just a virtual kiss

  • Author

    Po Yuan Juan

  • Country

    Taiwan

  • Production year

    2024

  • Type

    narrative

  • Video format

    16:9

  • Sound

    Yes

  • Category

    Artwork

  • Tags

    digital body, machinima, game engines, love story

  • Event location

    Taiwan

The story of love that takes place in the online game World of Warcraft is turned into the raw material to explain how players of online games construct their own virtual bodies in the digital world and how their bodies are extended in digital form, thus turning a game into a medium to touch, embrace, and kiss each other through different fantasy races of doubles. By crossing to the other side of the screen, visuality enables the character one plays to entail the illusion of bodily and physical connection with other characters, whether as affect or constraints.

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