Month: May 2012

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Diary #17

WAN CHAI, HONG KONG, 1991 — “Persona.” Yes, my senior thesis choreography was named after a Bergman…

Newbie Blogger Initiative 2012 logo. Typography over image of dragon, monitor, and mouse
 16 Comments on Creative Freedom
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Creative Freedom

NEWBIE BLOGGER INITIATIVE, 31 MAY — Wow, month’s end already! I’d like to do one more piece…

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Diary #16

KOWLOON TONG, HONG KONG, 1989 — Junior Year. This guy from City University of Hong Kong came…

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Trilby Does dOCUMENTA!

Trilby is leaving for Kassel on Saturday to attend dOCUMENTA 13. She will be blogging it here….

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Diary #15

TSIM SHA TSUI, HONG KONG, 1991 — A group of HKAPA students and I went to Tsim…

Detail of the 1863 painting Olympia by Victorine Meurent and Edouard Manet
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Vicky

PARIS, 1863 — Lady Gaga, Madonna, yes, Britney Spears and Taylor Swift too, they all owe Vicky…

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Diary #14

WASHINGTON, DC, 1984 — Oh gawd, stop laughing! What self-respecting DC 15-year-old wouldn’t wear stilettos and ridiculously…

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Personal Repository

THE HAGUE, 27 May — “Personal Repository?” No, no, I know it’s a monumentally not-sexy title, but…

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Diary #13

SOMEWHERE NEAR BLACK ROCK CITY, NEVADA, 1998 — Liz Bowman and I walking in the Nevada desert,…

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Brian Feldman Follows Me!

WASHINGTON DC, 26 May — Performance artist Brian Feldman is following me. Only me. Well, only me…

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Diary #12

SAN DIEGO, 1996 — Eight years earlier the University of California, San Diego had altered the trajectory…

 2 Comments on Meet Me HiPiHi!
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Meet Me HiPiHi!

BEIJING / TOKYO, 26 May — Just when you thought you knew all the virtual worlds in…

 1 Comment on 2011 VWBPE Keynote on Virtual Identity
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2011 VWBPE Keynote on Virtual Identity

This is a recording of a presentation my human counterpart and I made together at the 2011…

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Diary #11

HONG KONG, 1989 — Terri Ray, Liz Tarnov, and I being goofballs out at some really old…

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Diary #10

MARTHA’S VINEYARD, 1977 — Summertime on The Vineyard. I was never actually this young, was I? No…

 5 Comments on Pssst… Newbie Blogger Initiative
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Pssst… Newbie Blogger Initiative

FREE FORUMS.ORG, 24 May — May is Newbie Blogger Initiaitve month and a whole collection of new…

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Diary #9

WAN CHAI, HONG KONG, 1989 — Oh gawd, this thing. Sophomore year. Saturday sushi-nite silliness. A group…

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Diary #8

KONINKLIJK CONSERVATORIUM, 1995 — My grad school roommate Stacey Giachino and I in a couple of our…

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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, original William Walters 1884 Gallery
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The Walters Art Museum

BALTIMORE, 8 May — William Walters may have died in the 19th century, but today the museum…

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Diary #7

TEL AVIV, 2010 — My sister Fiona, her boyfriend Karl, and Karl’s son Oskar on the beach…

A white or "porcelain" untextured, but 3D modeled, avatar character by Ironyca
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Making a 3D Game Character Myself

SOMEWHERE OUTSIDE OF EMERYVILLE, CA, 21 May — Legendary game designer Ironyca Lee, wait, scratch that, Legendary…

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52 Weeks of Pink

VANCOUVER, 20 May — Oh, wait, no, no, 52 weeks of color, one week of pink! Just…

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Esra’a Al Shafei

BAHRAIN / LONDON / BISCUIT BAY, 9 April — From my dorm room at King’s College in…

 8 Comments on No one can steal my identity (in heaven)
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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…

 5 Comments on Pictures Don’t Tell Stories
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Pictures Don’t Tell Stories

Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human characteristics to animal or non-living things, phenomena, material states and objects…

 5 Comments on The Curious Case of the ArcelorMittal Orbit
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The Curious Case of the ArcelorMittal Orbit

  LONDON, 11 May — 26 months after being awarded the landmark 2012 Olympic commission, sculptor Anish…

 6 Comments on Primates in Virtual Worlds
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Primates in Virtual Worlds

No matter how fully-immersed humans are within a virtual world, avatars are primates at heart (and brain.)…

 2 Comments on Building Communities with Strangers
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Building Communities with Strangers

THE BLACK SUN, 12 May — In the physical world, you help the old neighbor carry their…

 2 Comments on My Vagina in the 21st Century
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My Vagina in the 21st Century

  LOS ANGELES, 3 May — 18 years after Eve Ensler’s groundbreaking The Vagina Monologues, Funny or…