Howling Dogs

From Rhizome Artbase
Porpentine
2012
Description

Howling Dogs is a hypertext game which imprisons the player in a cell-like environment, offering escape through a virtual reality visor. In order to access dark fantasy worlds through the visor, the player is must perform perfunctory daily actions such as eating and drinking. Porpentine writes, "For me, escape begins with an internal change–discernment. If nothing changes in our understanding, we remain trapped. I’m not interested in some Matrix ending, some brutal, fatuous demarcation between the physical and virtual world. The only way to get anywhere in howling dogs is to stop consuming and start paying attention."

Rhizome staff
2021
Metadata
Variant History
outside link
2018
2012
Porpentine
web archive
2 November 2015
web capture
Rhizome staff