Tag Archives: Gender

A Game between Me and Me

2012/07/31 Written by Identity

I came across this clever YouTube video yesterday while brushing up my knowledge of Rrose Selavy (Duchamp’s pun on Eros, c’est la vie). What particularly struck me (and which I always admired in Duchamp) is the playfulness of his art, but also its depth. The concept of a game between a person’s personas is a [...]

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The Facebook Says: Culture & Technology

2012/07/19 Written by Facebook Says

SUBMERGED WITHIN THE ACOUSTIC TONES OF YOUR DIAL-UP INTERNET, 14 July – On Thursday I asked a few Facebook Friends a question about Culture. Here are the responses so far. Thank you so much to everyone who’s participated. In a March talk at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, columnist Virginia Heffernan opined, “Every [...]

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Girls Around Me

2012/04/04 Written by Augmented Reality

4 April – The meteoric rise of iPhone App Girls Around Me to, well, deletion… has been the buzz of the blogosphere this week. But have many well meaning bloggers gotten the analysis of this techno-cultural issue completely wrong? Many posts have decried the invasion of privacy, even though the app only mashed up two [...]

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photo of Aero in SLHS uniform

VB Previz #56 – Cheer is Life

2012/01/15 Written by Previz , Second Life Cheerleading Squad

Aero Bigboots produced Ze Moo’s Rezday Party 2011… and then fell off the face of the virtual earth for much of 2011… but she resurfaced on Wednesday to wish Ze another happy rezday and attend his 2012 party. Although she left her pom-poms at home, Aero did wear her SLCS cheerleader uniform, and… she scared [...]

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VB Previz #34 – Fraternal / Identical

2010/06/30 Written by Previz

MARKY MARK & VANEEESA IN THEIR “NORMAL” SHAPES & SKINS There is a genre of content creation in SL known as “Impossible IRL.” This term generally refers to the amazing flights of physics-free fancy that some of SL’s inspired builders have dared to realize. In Second Life we not only have the ability to explore [...]

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VB Previz #4 – Birth of Venus

2009/06/08 Written by Previz

Classic paintings. Oh yes. You know they’re coming. A dozen Venuses… probably! The Bougueureau has so much to say about gender, identity and more. Actually, the Victorine Meurent / Edouard Manet painting that I think makes most sense is Luncheon… but Bougureau Venus vs Olympia is such a study in gender/objectification/gaze… and the SL perennial… [...]

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Charlie White

2009/05/27 Written by Identity

I’ve seen some of Charlie White’s work in the past, like his Alien at a Cocktail Party photos… and so I was completely unprepared for the sublime power of his 2008 Teen and Transgender Comparative Study photographs. In these images he pairs teenage girls and pre-op transwomen, two people both “becoming women.” The pairs look [...]

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