It is believed that over the past 300 years, people have become more liberal and democratic, but this is not
quite the case. The emergence of liberal democracies is tied to the ideals of freedom and equality, which may
seem obvious and irreversible. But these ideals are much more fragile than we think. Their success in the 20th
century depended on unique technological conditions that may turn out to be ephemeral. In the second decade
of the 21st century, liberalism began to lose confidence. Questions about the ability of a liberal democracy
to provide the middle class have become louder and louder; politics has become more clan; and in more
countries, leaders are prone to demagogy and autocracy. The reasons for this political shift are complex, but
they seem to be intertwined with modern technological developments.
Power, as the asymmetry of knowledge, is disciplinary. She is an institute for the normalization of society.
The body of an obedient student arises, an obedient soldier, an obedient prisoner, or, for example, a clerk.
Addressing the topic of security tends to encourage the spread of power, the state. The generation of fear
breeds new discipline.
The link between panopticon and modern society was made by Michel Foucault, who saw in the panopticon
something more than an architectural plan. In his interpretation, the panopticon becomes a disciplinary
principle, going far beyond the framework of a round-shaped building. Anti-globalists, critics of Google and
social networks, see the triumph of Bentham’s plan in the “surveillance society” established by modern control
systems. First of all, this is manifested in surveillance cameras and systems for collecting information about
users. In modern society, it is difficult to grope the point of power, it is distributed between large international
companies, special services, private forces. In my project, I want to give the opportunity to approach this
point. The voluntary test group shares its location from a smartphone. On the map of the city in vr, it will be
possible to trace the location of the entire test group, as in reality this can be done by security officers or
large corporations using data from a mobile phone. Thus, the viewer is invited to touch the modern ephemeral
point of power in the virtual world. Do not be afraid to interact with it and overcome the phobia of global
surveillance.

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Today, the freedom of man, as a subject of entertainment, is the freedom of choice, and not the freedom to change the conditions of choice. People who are in conditions of detention turn out to be disconnected from the collective patterns of the imaginary. The power emanating from the nature of things is transformed by the nature of digital things, dominated by the logic of algorithms.

“Zone” is a game of voluntary conclusion. This is the emancipation of the imperious regime of imprisonment by digital means in order to open a space in which you can not enjoy.The free space of the room is outlined by the accompanying boundaries of virtual reality. The game is possible only in this space. The game score is the time spent in this zone wearing virtual reality glasses. The position of the glasses is controlled by sensors. When removing points, the game ends. When you go abroad, the game ends. The player simultaneously becomes a prisoner of virtual boundaries of the free space of his own room and virtual communication.

This is a game intervention based on VRCHAT social vr platform.

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Ellina Gennadievna