Research Assignment 1

The phenomenon I am choosing to focus my shrine around is people’s obsession and connection with video games. Over the past few decades, video games have quickly become a huge part of many people’s lives. I think lots of people almost worship their video games. That is why I want to make a shrine about videogame addiction and how people feel such a strong connection to something that is virtual. This phenomenon is important to me because my friends and I play video games together a lot and it made me think about how video games have affected my life, other people’s lives, and the world. I want to focus solely on the connection between video games and people, physically and mentally. I want to try to represent this by creating some sort of monolith-type structure of a gaming console as if it was something that you would kneel before or worship. This is because my audience is people who play video games and understand the impact it has on the world and how it has manifested itself into something real.