Domain Errors

Dorothy R. Santos, Ph.D student Film & Digital Media, writer and artist whose academic interests include digital art, computational media, games, and biotechnology.

Domain Errors (2018) is an interactive, speculative fiction, text-based game created for and published in Art Journal’s Summer 2020 issue. This version of Domain Errors was created with the open-source platform Twine and is intended to serve as a supplement to the print version. The protagonist of Domain Errors is Aseco, named after the Greek goddess of healing. The experience takes the player through varying levels of cultural, social, and political visibility and invisibility. The player makes choices throughout the game that involve explorations of identities that are subject to varying levels of care and have been studied within the medical and health-care industries. The game is not bound by time, and it is fantastical in its propositions. Domain Errors uses statistical data as a primary worlding device in order to ultimately investigate how race, gender, and class are inextricably linked to science and technology.