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The aesthetics of speedrunning: Performances in neo-baroque space

dc.contributor.authorReed, Emilie
dc.date.accessioned2023-02-13T09:17:45Z
dc.date.available2023-02-13T09:17:45Z
dc.date.issued2022-10-25
dc.identifier.issn2391-8551
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11089/45935
dc.description.abstractSpeedrunning describes activities related to the development and performance of strategies to complete games quickly, and is a valuable source of historical and technical information, while producing specialized aesthetic explorations of a videogame’s environment. Most research on speedrunning emphasizes its metagaming or documentary function. However, speedrunning also changes the aesthetic experience of gameplay, both for players and in spectated performance. Aesthetic investigation informed by art historical perspectives, such as Angela Ndalianis’ theory of the Neo-Baroque and H.S. Becker’s study of Art World formations, offers new insights into the experience of speedrunning and how discontinuous and disjointed simulated space is experienced and appreciated as aesthetic phenomena by players and spectators. While Nidalianis has applied her theory to videogames, among other types of contemporary entertainment, further investigating speedrunning performances through this lens extends her analysis and problematizes the idea of a videogame as a singular aesthetic work, instead drawing attention to alternative aesthetic experiences videogames can offer.en
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherWydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiegopl
dc.relation.ispartofseriesReplay. The Polish Journal of Game Studies;1en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subjectspeedrunningen
dc.subjectgaming communityen
dc.subjectperformanceen
dc.subjectaestheticsen
dc.subjectmetagamingen
dc.titleThe aesthetics of speedrunning: Performances in neo-baroque spaceen
dc.typeArticle
dc.page.number99-115
dc.contributor.authorAffiliationUniversity of Abertayen
dc.identifier.eissn2449-8394
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dc.contributor.authorEmailemilie.m.reed@gmail.com
dc.identifier.doi10.18778/2391-8551.08.05
dc.relation.volume8


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