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A v a t a r I s m

A v a t a r I s m. Antoinette LaFarge. By: Group 5. What is it?. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kwke0LNardc. Defining avatarism. Sanskrit word: “descent” A person generally in online communities or game worlds Virtual alter egos Often graphical. Antoinette Lafarge. Background:

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A v a t a r I s m

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  1. A v a t a r I s m Antoinette LaFarge By: Group 5

  2. What is it? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kwke0LNardc

  3. Defining avatarism • Sanskrit word: “descent” • A person generally in online communities or game worlds • Virtual alter egos • Often graphical

  4. Antoinette Lafarge • Background: • Professor of Digital Media, Art Department, UCI • Associate Director, UCI Game Culture & Technology • Affiliated Faculty, Center in Law, Society, & Culture, UCI • Associate Dean for Graduate Affairs, Claire Trevor School of the Arts, UCI (2009-2012) • Director of the Plaintext Players • Director Museum of Forgery • Associate Editor of Anthology • Associate of the Institute of Cultural Inquiry

  5. Antoinette Lafarge (cont.) • About her work: • Lifelong obsession with virtuality • Impersonation and Identity • Improvisation and Performance • Game & Pay • Expanded Narrative

  6. Projects • Far-Flung follows function • Galileo in America • Hangmen Also Die • WOW • Chronovacuum • Playing the Rapture • Rapture installations • Demotic • The Roman Forum Project • Reading Frankenstein • WISP

  7. In-Person Avatar • Aka Project WISP • What is it? • Having another human be your personal avatar and how would people respond to that or if it is socially acceptable • An intervention project • Process: • Train a professional actor • Choose which biography • Challenges: • Hard for people to accept another person posed as her • “Technical” difficulties

  8. Social media • Project WOW • 2009 Exhibition • Fascination & frustration with War of Warcraft • Troubling relationship & oversimplification in writing • Self-interests • What are WE doing to ourselves?

  9. http://www.differenceengines.com/?p=1031 http://www.differenceengines.com/?p=1031 The uncanny valley • A term coined by robotics Professor Masahiro Mori • The point at which something looks/moves/acts human, but actually isn’t • Noted in “Other Uncanny Valleys” blog post in Difference Engines • http://www.differenceengines.com/?p=1031 • Arts 11 Lecture • http://sites.uci.edu/01807w14/lectures/jan-16-i-robot/

  10. The uncanny valley (cont.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNdAIPoh8a4

  11. The uncanny valley (cont.) • Avatar Uncanny Valley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wK1Ixr-UmM

  12. The uncanny valley (cont.) • Planet of the Apes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TsHcomGhpM

  13. THE END THANK YOU! Questions Comments

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