Laura Laabs

Laura Laabs

Laura Laabs is a research fellow at the Offenbach University of Art and Design. Previously, she was a member of the research training program "Configurations of Film" at Goethe University, Frankfurt. She is interested in the kinds of order produced through games and writing about (playing) games. This research interest extends to her dissertation on bodily and cultural techniques and computer games. Recently published: “Ziptease,” In Progress. A GEM Lab Periodical of New Research, https://www.globalemergentmedia.com/in-progress/ziptease; and "Grundlagen der Pokémonologie," in: Thomas Spies/Şeyda Kurt/Holger Pötzsch (Hg.), Spiel*Kritik. Kritische Perspektiven auf Videospiele im Kapitalismus, doi.org/10.14361/9783839467978-016.

Dossiers, no. 2, vol. 10

Like Moths to a Flame

Laura Laabs follows the smooth path of a drone, the central vehicle in a tech demo for raytracing technologies. Using the moth as a figure for our relationship to light, Laabs asks what is at stake in such mediations of reflection and shine.