
Performative Avatars | Final
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

Performative Avatars | Morphing & Rigging (W3)
Questions from Readings (1) Imagined fembots are problematic because they portray the female as objects of desire without agency. What about “real fembots” who actually make deliberate choices like Kylie Jenner & Poppy? Perhaps behind their content lies an intent to reclaim, subvert, or present new ways of seeing. But then my follow up question is: Does the intent even matter when majority of audience just consume content at face value, without context? (2) Becoming Dragon su

Performative Avatars | Body Scan (W2)
Questions from Readings (1) For characters that have merged so inextricably with their actors (e.g. Daniel Radcliffe & Harry Potter, Marvel heroes and their actors), who “owns” the character's “likeness”? I would argue that these characters are fundamentally different from Princess Leia and Carrie Fisher because they exist before being portrayed in live-action films. Say that the rights of these characters’ likeness belong to the studios, would it still be ethical to produce