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| Still from Robbie Cooper's media project, 'Immersion' |
Immersion is a project that records video of people “through the screen” as they play games, use the internet and watch TV using an 'Interrotron' camera. The idea being to capture elements of the individuals character, together with their degree of interaction with the screen.
“The game pulls people in much quicker than TV... That kid [above] cries when he plays games. He’s so engrossed by the game that he’s playing that he literally loses the blink reflex.”
- Robbie Cooper, Media Artist
Watch 'Immersion'
Robbie is now working with the Media Center at Bournemouth University, on an 18 month study called “War and Leisure”, of teenagers and war in the media. Using the Facial Action Coding System, developed by Paul Ekman, we’ll be analysing the reactions of teenagers to war in video games, movies, news footage, documentaries and online video. Outside of this study we’re also filming people consuming a range of media- everything from the shopping channel, porn, sports, to programming created for babies.
Robbie is now working with the Media Center at Bournemouth University, on an 18 month study called “War and Leisure”, of teenagers and war in the media. Using the Facial Action Coding System, developed by Paul Ekman, we’ll be analysing the reactions of teenagers to war in video games, movies, news footage, documentaries and online video. Outside of this study we’re also filming people consuming a range of media- everything from the shopping channel, porn, sports, to programming created for babies.