The Skater : Wendy McMurdo

Posted on August 21 2016

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The Skater : Wendy McMurdo │By (author) Vikki Bell , By (author) David Drake , By (author) Lisa Edgar

According to Sherry Turkle, Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “children grow up in a culture of video games, action films, fantasy epics, and computer programs that all rely on that familiar scenario of almost losing but then regaining total mastery: There is danger. It is mastered. A still-more-powerful monster appears. It is subdued. Scary. Safe.’ Wendy McMurdo’s digital work and the parallel film made in collaboration with Paul Holmes explores this disturbing dichotomy, examining the relationship and polarities – between traditional and digital recreation – and our need to play and explore both the ‘scary’ and the safe.