Expanded Quantification: Games and Theatres of Calculation

Abstract

In the twenty-first century, we no longer choose whether we engage in a quantified world. Quantification surrounds us in the presence of big data, algorithmic curation, mass marketing, and the sheer amount of discrete measurability that sustains all forms of global value transactions, both “speculative” and “real.” “Theatres of Calculation” combine participatory and agential elements of games, with the dual-layered performance space of the literal and non-literal, to create a context that can address hyper-quantification and the digital world.