Playing and Dying Between the Real and the Hyperreal. Processes of Mediation in Mroué’s The Pixelated Revolution and Cardiff and Bures Miller’s Alter Bahnhof Video Walk.

At dOCUMENTA 13 The Pixelated Revolution by Rabih Mroué (2012) and the Alter Bahnhof Video Walk by Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller (2012) were shown, both of which explore processes and risks of mediation through video cameras. Mroué’s work provides an analysis of amateur videos of the Syrian war in which the camera operator films a sharpshooter and continues filming until the sharpshooter shoots; what motivates the camera operator to keep on filming in the face of life-threatening danger? Cardiff and Bures Miller allow the audience to experience the alienating effect of conflating virtual and actual reality, by leading the participant through Kassel's Alter Bahnhof with an iPod video walk. This article explores the mechanisms at play within and the interaction between these two artworks, using Bolter and Grusin's hypermediacy, immediacy and remediation as well as Baudrillard's hyperreality.Modern and Contemporary Studie