{"id":436,"date":"2010-01-25T02:09:54","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T02:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ips.buffalo.edu\/?p=436"},"modified":"2012-04-16T23:16:30","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T23:16:30","slug":"perfumer-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ips.buffalo.edu\/?p=436","title":{"rendered":"Perfumer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_489\" style=\"width: 478px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ips.buffalo.edu\/?attachment_id=489\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-489\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-489\" class=\"size-full wp-image-489 \" title=\"IMG_1020\" src=\"http:\/\/ips.buffalo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_1020.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"468\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-489\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Competitive alchemy...<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Perfumer<\/em>\u00a0is a frenetic interactive encounter in the form of a game for two players. The players sit opposite one another and compete to concoct &#8220;potions&#8221; in honor of their respective &#8220;Gods.&#8221; Color-coded instructions appear upon selections from the <em>Tarot de Marsaille<\/em>\u00a0and direct the action of the game by forcing players to &#8220;build&#8221; their potions in a specific order, using eyedroppers as utensils to dispense various colored liquids. Additionally, a language component complicates game play by asking players to verbalize the name of each color as they add it to their potion-in-progress. Finally, each player wears stereo headphones through which their &#8220;God-voice&#8221; intermittently communicates with them, altering game play, or charging the players to poison each other&#8217;s potions and forcing the implementation of an antidote&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Through a series of visual, aural and semiotic devices, <em>Perfumers<\/em>\u00a0seeks to destabilize the sort of everyday &#8220;consciousness&#8221; one might take for granted, challenging participants to look, listen, and follow commands while pursuing a specific goal: to win the game and earn the glory of their God!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Performative Lecture:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"IMP CON\" href=\"http:\/\/ips.buffalo.edu\/?p=392\">&#8220;Improvising Consciousness,&#8221; by Professor Jennifer\u00a0\u00c5rnstay<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Interactive Workshops:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"IMP CON\" href=\"http:\/\/ips.buffalo.edu\/?p=414\">The ABC&#8217;s of Love<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"IMP CON\" href=\"http:\/\/ips.buffalo.edu\/?p=432\">Davian Bead Game<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"IMP CON\" href=\"http:\/\/ips.buffalo.edu\/?p=438\">The Voice<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Perfumer\u00a0is a frenetic interactive encounter in the form of a game for two players. The players sit opposite one another and compete to concoct &#8220;potions&#8221; in honor of their [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-impcon-documentation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ips.buffalo.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ips.buffalo.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ips.buffalo.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ips.buffalo.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ips.buffalo.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/ips.buffalo.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":750,"href":"https:\/\/ips.buffalo.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions\/750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ips.buffalo.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ips.buffalo.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ips.buffalo.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}