Random Magazine - New Media Art / E-Culture » avatar http://www.random-magazine.net Random links about Art & Technology Fri, 23 Oct 2026 09:17:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Avatar days http://www.random-magazine.net/2010/07/avatar-days/ http://www.random-magazine.net/2010/07/avatar-days/#comments Mon, 12 Jul 2010 10:00:44 +0000 vtanni http://www.random-magazine.net/?p=2921 avatar_days-481x267-custom

Originally created for the Darklight Festival’s ‘4 Day Movie’ project, Avatar Days is a portrait of four online gamers in Dublin whose daily lives contrast with their virtual identities. Advanced 3D technologies and Motion Capture animation were used to insert the players’ in-game characters in place of their real selves against the backdrop of the banal urban landscape which they inhabit.

http://vimeo.com/9157869

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The virtual communities created by online games have provided us with a new medium for social interaction and communication. Avatar Machine, by Marc Owens, is a system which replicates the aesthetics and visuals of third person gaming, allowing the user to view themselves as a virtual character in real space via a head mounted interface.
The system potentially allows for a diminished sense of social responsibility, and could lead the user to demonstrate behaviors normally reserved for the gaming environment.

http://www.marcowens.co.uk

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Public Avatar, by Martin Bricelj, is a project documenting the relationship between virtual reality and our perceptions of self and society. This installation will allow a global audience to explore real-world locations remotely, and to interact with objects and people in those locations through real-time control of a human test subject. As digital and physical worlds collide, the boundaries between self and other, reality and simulation are constantly challenged and redefined.
Public Avatar will be available online on special events during the year. The dates and times will be announced online. During these events, users will be able to login at www.public-avatar.com. Each logged in user will be placed in a queue and wait for his turn, when he/ she will be able to give simple instructions (such as ‘Turn’+’Left’, ‘SAY’+’hello’ etc) to the avatar for a limited timed period. Users will be able to see and hear what Public Avatar sees and hears via live video stream.

Upcoming performance: 12.- 13. September 2009 MuseumsQuartier, Vienna, Paraflows Festival- Saturday 8PM

http://www.public-avatar.com
http://www.martinbricelj.com

]]> http://www.random-magazine.net/2009/09/public-avatar/feed/ 0 Avatars and Others http://www.random-magazine.net/2001/09/avatars-and-others/ http://www.random-magazine.net/2001/09/avatars-and-others/#comments Tue, 18 Sep 2001 14:44:32 +0000 vtanni http://www.random-magazine.net/?p=4359 È in corso fino al 4 novembre all’Edith Russ Haus fur Medienkunst di Oldenburg un mostra intitolata Avatars and Others, dedicata agli avatar e al tema dell’identitá virtuale. Avatar è un termine di origine Hindi che significa “divinità incarnata” e viene comunemente usato per indicare un’icona o un’immagine che rappresenta una persona in un ambiente virtuale come il protagonista di un videogioco o un’identiàá che vive e comunica attraverso Internet. Gli artisti partecipanti alla mostra sono Kristin Lucas, Dan Graham, Lynn Hershman, Victoria Vesna e Markus Huemer.

Avatars and Others

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