Month: May 2012
Diary #17
WAN CHAI, HONG KONG, 1991 — “Persona.” Yes, my senior thesis choreography was named after a Bergman…
Creative Freedom
NEWBIE BLOGGER INITIATIVE, 31 MAY — Wow, month’s end already! I’d like to do one more piece…
Diary #16
KOWLOON TONG, HONG KONG, 1989 — Junior Year. This guy from City University of Hong Kong came…
Trilby Does dOCUMENTA!
Trilby is leaving for Kassel on Saturday to attend dOCUMENTA 13. She will be blogging it here….
Diary #15
TSIM SHA TSUI, HONG KONG, 1991 — A group of HKAPA students and I went to Tsim…
Vicky
PARIS, 1863 — Lady Gaga, Madonna, yes, Britney Spears and Taylor Swift too, they all owe Vicky…
Diary #14
WASHINGTON, DC, 1984 — Oh gawd, stop laughing! What self-respecting DC 15-year-old wouldn’t wear stilettos and ridiculously…
Personal Repository
THE HAGUE, 27 May — “Personal Repository?” No, no, I know it’s a monumentally not-sexy title, but…
Diary #13
SOMEWHERE NEAR BLACK ROCK CITY, NEVADA, 1998 — Liz Bowman and I walking in the Nevada desert,…
Brian Feldman Follows Me!
WASHINGTON DC, 26 May — Performance artist Brian Feldman is following me. Only me. Well, only me…
Diary #12
SAN DIEGO, 1996 — Eight years earlier the University of California, San Diego had altered the trajectory…
Meet Me HiPiHi!
BEIJING / TOKYO, 26 May — Just when you thought you knew all the virtual worlds in…
2011 VWBPE Keynote on Virtual Identity
This is a recording of a presentation my human counterpart and I made together at the 2011…
Diary #11
HONG KONG, 1989 — Terri Ray, Liz Tarnov, and I being goofballs out at some really old…
Diary #10
MARTHA’S VINEYARD, 1977 — Summertime on The Vineyard. I was never actually this young, was I? No…
Pssst… Newbie Blogger Initiative
FREE FORUMS.ORG, 24 May — May is Newbie Blogger Initiaitve month and a whole collection of new…
Diary #9
WAN CHAI, HONG KONG, 1989 — Oh gawd, this thing. Sophomore year. Saturday sushi-nite silliness. A group…
Diary #8
KONINKLIJK CONSERVATORIUM, 1995 — My grad school roommate Stacey Giachino and I in a couple of our…
I Share Therefore I Am
Every single tweet we send, no matter what its overt topic, is part of an ongoing story…
The Walters Art Museum
BALTIMORE, 8 May — William Walters may have died in the 19th century, but today the museum…
Diary #7
TEL AVIV, 2010 — My sister Fiona, her boyfriend Karl, and Karl’s son Oskar on the beach…
Making a 3D Game Character Myself
SOMEWHERE OUTSIDE OF EMERYVILLE, CA, 21 May — Legendary game designer Ironyca Lee, wait, scratch that, Legendary…
52 Weeks of Pink
VANCOUVER, 20 May — Oh, wait, no, no, 52 weeks of color, one week of pink! Just…
Esra’a Al Shafei
BAHRAIN / LONDON / BISCUIT BAY, 9 April — From my dorm room at King’s College in…
No one can steal my identity (in heaven)
This is a strange little surrealist trip juxtaposing fluid avatar image deconstruction with a gospel song about…
Pictures Don’t Tell Stories
Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human characteristics to animal or non-living things, phenomena, material states and objects…
The Curious Case of the ArcelorMittal Orbit
LONDON, 11 May — 26 months after being awarded the landmark 2012 Olympic commission, sculptor Anish…
Primates in Virtual Worlds
No matter how fully-immersed humans are within a virtual world, avatars are primates at heart (and brain.)…
Building Communities with Strangers
THE BLACK SUN, 12 May — In the physical world, you help the old neighbor carry their…
My Vagina in the 21st Century
http://youtu.be/4iMBUoxLOmA LOS ANGELES, 3 May — 18 years after Eve Ensler’s groundbreaking The Vagina Monologues, Funny…