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presence. The installation was designed around the table as an extension of itself to give it as
much potential agency as players would have in an environment meant for sharing, bonding, and
socializing. The installation therefore works to bridge the liminal gap between self and object by
providing accessible means of interactivity meant to bring awareness to this relationship as it
happens.
It was during this preliminary stage of development that I realized the importance the
environment played due to the supportive installation elements needed to provide the table
agency. As noted in my prospectus, I maintain that disguising the supportive installation
elements around the table would push immediacy to the hypermediated environment on display
and potentially viewed as untrustworthy by players. Immediacy does occur through how the
installation is run, but the instruments and channels that facilitate the installation's presentation
and the tables relationship to these instruments are made plain to observe such as the
projectors, cables, amp speakers, cameras, etc... The observation of the space itself is also made
clear as an obvious studio partially obscured through shadows and spots of light. On its own, the
table featured in an installation within an overall studio environment evokes the liminality of
space or nonplace where nonplaces are "...sites for experiencing the reality of mediation"
(Bolter Grusin 178). Bolter and Grusin write on mediated spaces that "What the individual
experiences in these mediated encounters is the hypermediacy of these nonplaces, which aredefined not by their associations with local history or even with the ground on which they are
built, but primarily by the reality of the media they contain" (Bolter Grusin 179). I believe this
nonplace atmosphere to be primarily evoked by the studio environment itself that hosts the
installation, featuring an intentional open floor plan, stages, curtains, a fake backdrop wall, large
rolling desks, cables, cameras, ceiling lights and more. At the center of this space is of course the47
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Hensley, Dylan. Thank You Parts I and II, thesis, December 2023; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2256302/m1/53/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .