https://thutods.com thuto durkac-somo Wed, 22 May 2019 15:41:56 +0000 https://thutods.com en https://thutods.com/Slideshow Wed, 22 May 2019 15:41:55 +0000 thuto durkac-somo https://thutods.com/Slideshow hello@thutods.com please scroll down :) https://thutods.com/Featured-Projects Wed, 22 May 2019 15:41:55 +0000 thuto durkac-somo https://thutods.com/Featured-Projects the latest: 1014 Black Ground: Dispossession Inheritance a filmed lecture performed by Mario Gooden. 2020. Working on Water A performance by Mario Gooden in collaboration with Jonathan Gonzalez and Thuto Durkac Somo. 2019. Exhibition Production IMPAKT Full Spectrum Curatorship Program Thuto was selected as a participant and mentored by Wade Wallerstein. 2021. Screen Spaces, a geography of moving image︎Video Installation group exhibition organized by Het Nieuwe Intstituut.New York, NY, December 2018. The Morning After (The Blind Dates)︎ Co-Organizer Exhibition of media produced from conversations and interviews with curators and participants at 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale. Emily Harvey Foundation, Venice La Avion︎ Video Editor solo exhibition of Sophie T. Lvoff ENSBA, Lyon Objects that Speak︎Co-curatorM.S. CCCP ‘18 thesis show as part of Columbia GSAPP End of Year Show 2018 New York, NY, May 2018 Secret Dungeon Project Co-Curator Gallery in Brooklyn, NY (2016-2018) Work The Virtual HeroM.S. Columbia University GSAPP, 2019 <img width="3000" height="3000" width_o="3000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/046f63483ae6b230c3a2bdf22d1752bf457e9cd22e19ec4ae0045af92cb3b605/virtual-hero.png" data-mid="42855753" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/046f63483ae6b230c3a2bdf22d1752bf457e9cd22e19ec4ae0045af92cb3b605/virtual-hero.png" /> Resistance Monument︎ July 2020 µ(magnetic force)︎Performance by Beatriz Simonnsohn Videographer New York, NY 2019 In Common︎ Performance by Beatriz SimonsohnVideographer, Photographer New York, NY 2018 Kite costume︎ Performance by Beatriz Simonsohn Photographer New York, NY 2018 The Sacrifice︎ Video, 2018 Baseball Violence︎ Video, 2018 No One Lives Here Anymore︎ Ongoing photo series of regional construction sites Publication“System Settings”︎ Canadian Centre for Architecture, 2023 “’Man-Gaming’: A History of MilitarizedComputer Graphics”︎ Take Shape Magazine. Issue 3, 2021. “Call and Response”︎ The Architecture of Gospel Essay for Avery Review Issue 44 “Sublime Athletics”︎ Data visualization reshapes how players are evaluated and also how we see them Essay for Real Life Mag September 06, 2017 “Gunsight”︎ How the legibility of firearms&nbsp;belies the reality of violence Essay for Real Life Mag February 01, 2017 Us Neither︎ Zine, 2016 https://thutods.com/Text Wed, 22 May 2019 15:41:56 +0000 thuto durkac-somo https://thutods.com/Text https://thutods.com/The-Virtual-Hero Wed, 22 May 2019 15:41:56 +0000 thuto durkac-somo https://thutods.com/The-Virtual-Hero Video Link Thesis TextVirtual Hero: Narratives of Playing the City2019 <img width="3000" height="3000" width_o="3000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/046f63483ae6b230c3a2bdf22d1752bf457e9cd22e19ec4ae0045af92cb3b605/virtual-hero.png" data-mid="42855585" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/046f63483ae6b230c3a2bdf22d1752bf457e9cd22e19ec4ae0045af92cb3b605/virtual-hero.png" /> Virtual Hero: Narratives of Playing the City studies the contradictions and freedoms of cities as fictional worlds governed by real rules. There is a limit to the freedom of movement and collision of virtual bodies before they appear unnatural. But of course, our digital avatars have always existed as dreams of desired bodies within fictional landscapes. Computer-aided design produced a space where play functioned as an organizing mechanic of the city. This history intersects with the production of first-person perspectives in computer games, and thus the emerging industry of virtual immersion. Commercial 3D modeling tools and computer game technology standardized the human body, reinforcing a built environment designed for a fictive demographic. Yet these worlds have a tangible logic missing from an ethnography of a real metropolis. Patterned behavior of non-playable characters, idle animations, and texture mapping define a politics of computation. The Virtual Hero studies how artists, architects, and players have produced digital assets, narratives, and performances that transcend proscribed rules of play. Working between narrative fiction, computer art, and gameplay, this thesis explores the history of simulated cities and the formation of player-identity in digital space. 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