Gaps: I'm Not Sure This Is Going Anywhere. I'm Afraid This Is Going To End. There Might Not Be Anything Else.

This thesis project uses code-driven media to express states of spatial, cognitive and narrative uncertainty. Gaps: I'm not sure this is going anywhere/ I'm afraid this is going to end/ There might not be anything else (shortened to Gaps throughout) combines aspects of game design, electronic literature and film to develop a structure of looping progression. Gaps features a three-channel interactive video installation that combines photographic and computer-generated footage, text, and digital objects to express a series of thought loops, emotional states and memories occupied with perceived unstable futures. Viewers move through these states, some of which present occasional moments of limited agency through interaction and what Lev Manovich calls spatial cinema, giving viewers the agency to change details but not the outcome. The project situates viewers in liminal and suburban spaces that express internal states and evoke qualities of what Deleuze and Guattari call the "smooth and striated." Viewers are encouraged to linger in the narrative moments and digital spaces presented through the language of code-driven media. This thesis support document, written to accompany the media installation, elaborates on each of its key themes and concepts.