{"id":2,"date":"2019-02-20T19:33:04","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T19:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/arx340-rtibbitts\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2019-04-29T14:30:17","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T18:30:17","slug":"about-the-project","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/arx340-rtibbitts\/about-the-project\/","title":{"rendered":"ABOUT THE PROJECT"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_93\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-93\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-93 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/arx340-rtibbitts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/392\/2019\/04\/IMG_1983copy-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/arx340-rtibbitts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/392\/2019\/04\/IMG_1983copy-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/arx340-rtibbitts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/392\/2019\/04\/IMG_1983copy-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/arx340-rtibbitts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/392\/2019\/04\/IMG_1983copy-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-93\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eye to Eye: Portraits of Lesbians. Joan E. Biren Papers, Smith College Special Collection, Northampton, MA.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Haunting Looking<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is a marriage of my two great loves: video games, and history. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Haunted Looking<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is an experiment: can a video game teach history? Can its narrative impart a meaningful experience that facilitates a deeper understanding of lesbian life in the United States? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In\u00a0<em>Haunted Looking<\/em>, players randomly encounter &#8220;ghosts,&#8221; or the portraits \/ archival objects of Joan E. Biren&#8217;s <em>Eye to Eye: Portraits of Lesbians<\/em> (1979). Players navigate through a digital exhibit of photographs of lesbians guided by the narrative frame of a haunted house. No single play through of <em>Haunted Looking<\/em> will allow the player to discover all of the portraits \/ archival objects. I encourage players to play the game multiple times and think about how the exhibit shifts with varying combinations of different archival objects.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">With <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Haunted Looking<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, I argue that video games are persuasive tools that uniquely engage their audience, investing the player in thinking deeply and critically about the content of the game. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Haunted Looking<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> encourages the player to think critically about visual representation of lesbian subjects, including the photograph and the game itself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/arx340-rtibbitts\/sample-page\/problems-of-representing-lesbians\/\">Problems of Representing Lesbians<\/a> ] [ <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/arx340-rtibbitts\/sample-page\/video-games-as-queer-objects\/\">Video Games as Queer Objects<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haunting Looking is a marriage of my two great loves: video games, and history. 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