Self Love / Self Help / Send Help is a short video essay I made to explore and negotiate how I feel toward my own body and identity(ies). I collected some "triggers" and put them on a canvas together with my avatars. There are 3 scenes: Home, Identity, and Body. By using these avatars as a malleable proxy and an extension of myself, I attempted to mediate my relationships with these triggers. The movement and texture of the avatars were means to express how I felt and wanted

Questions from Readings (1) I think one of the reasons why there are so many brutal killing simulations and realistic violent mods in GTA V (and by extension, other video games) is that ultimately, the violence still feel unreal. The bodies still are digital bodies viewed on a screen. But is there a point where realism (perhaps beyond visual realism) in simulated violence becomes too much? Is there such thing as the uncanny valley of “violence" and we just have not gone past