Cho-Am

Oldenburg, Aaron

Cho-Am

dc.contributor.author	Oldenburg, Aaron
dc.date.accessioned	2021-01-04T20:43:04Z
dc.date.available	2021-01-04T20:43:04Z
dc.date.issued	2016-02-12
dc.description	This is a videogame where the player visits the cremation site of Pol Pot as a sleepwalker. They interpret the world their character is inhabiting by their gestures and brief glimpses inside their head. The real life cremation site of Pol Pot in Cho-Am is a place of contradictory spiritual and political significance. As a "good-luck" shrine, offerings are continuously left by visitors who hope to have assistance in their prayers from a main architect of the Cambodian auto-genocide. This is a way of dealing with the memory and presence of someone responsible for pain and destruction that is outside of the realm of forgiveness and punishment. The site, itself, has very little aside from a tin roof covering a mound of dirt where Pol Pot's ashes used to be. Much of the experience of the site takes place in one's head.	en_US
dc.description.abstract	This is a videogame where the player visits the cremation site of Pol Pot as a sleepwalker. They interpret the world their character is inhabiting by their gestures and brief glimpses inside their head. The real life cremation site of Pol Pot in Cho-Am is a place of contradictory spiritual and political significance. As a "good-luck" shrine, offerings are continuously left by visitors who hope to have assistance in their prayers from a main architect of the Cambodian auto-genocide. This is a way of dealing with the memory and presence of someone responsible for pain and destruction that is outside of the realm of forgiveness and punishment. The site, itself, has very little aside from a tin roof covering a mound of dirt where Pol Pot's ashes used to be. Much of the experience of the site takes place in one's head.	en_US
dc.genre	videogame	en_US
dc.identifier	doi:10.13016/m2zks7-lb4y
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11603/20279
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAt	University of Baltimore
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/	*
dc.subject	Cambodia	en_US
dc.subject	Pol Pot	en_US
dc.subject	artgame	en_US
dc.subject	experimental	en_US
dc.subject	Khmer Rouge	en_US
dc.subject	spirituality	en_US
dc.subject	dreams	en_US
dc.subject	procedural generation	en_US
dc.title	Cho-Am	en_US
dc.type	Software	en_US