I appreciate the ape-like presence in this image of avatar. if I am understanding my overall read through of the posts you have shared, I think that I understand that you make these. my initial wish is that they appeared on the overpasses in highly populated urban areas in the form of graffiti. I find them very compelling and INCLUSIVE...beautiful!
1) how do you know the avatar is a she? 2) how relevant is an avatar's biological sex and why? 3) if an avatar has a biological sex (that is not just an attribution--or perhaps an avatar's sex is an attribution?) does this not place the avatar on a curious teetering between human and not?
Thanks for your comments, j/j, I've only just now found them. I'll try to answer your questions.
These images are screenshots from an animated work made up of images I downloaded from the Visible Human Viewer (which doesn't seem to be online anymore) of slices of one male body and one female body. The screenshot on this page shows the female body, but both bodies are in the animation and the slices are continually changing in a random way so the male and female bodies morph into each other. In the animation, you could read it as a single body of indeterminate or fluctuating sex or perhaps as an unstable hermaphrodite. Or you could read it as two bodies passing through each other.
You could say that this is a snapshot of the avatar as a female, the other image is a snapshot of the avatar as a male.
The screenshots are actually surrogates for the Flash animation. I would've posted the Flash if I'd been able but, unless I'm mistaken, I don't think that's possible in Blogger.
Do you have a url for the Flash? That would work. For me, the hermaphroditic is interesting; usually my avatars in SL are the same; they're sexual, but sexually indeterminate.
I do wonder why the Visible Human project has disappeared - whether there were lawsuits or some censor finding it 'inappropriate,' whatever...
thanks greatly, I'm tired. I remember the original Time-Life cdrom by the way - you could 'fly' through the body in any number of directions, it was interactive. do you have any idea what the subsequent history of the Project was? are there other similar things on the Net? I remember the plastination shows (forget the exact word) by the way, of a few years ago - I think they originated in Germany, came to the US and Japan at least - plastic modeling of corpses; the tissues were filled with resin. - I wondered, also, in that situation, who the people were.
I appreciate the ape-like presence in this image of avatar. if I am understanding my overall read through of the posts you have shared, I think that I understand that you make these. my initial wish is that they appeared on the overpasses in highly populated urban areas in the form of graffiti. I find them very compelling and INCLUSIVE...beautiful!
ReplyDelete1) how do you know the avatar is a she?
ReplyDelete2) how relevant is an avatar's biological sex and why?
3) if an avatar has a biological sex (that is not just an attribution--or perhaps an avatar's sex is an attribution?) does this not place the avatar on a curious teetering between human and not?
Thanks for your comments, j/j, I've only just now found them. I'll try to answer your questions.
ReplyDeleteThese images are screenshots from an animated work made up of images I downloaded from the Visible Human Viewer (which doesn't seem to be online anymore) of slices of one male body and one female body. The screenshot on this page shows the female body, but both bodies are in the animation and the slices are continually changing in a random way so the male and female bodies morph into each other. In the animation, you could read it as a single body of indeterminate or fluctuating sex or perhaps as an unstable hermaphrodite. Or you could read it as two bodies passing through each other.
You could say that this is a snapshot of the avatar as a female, the other image is a snapshot of the avatar as a male.
The screenshots are actually surrogates for the Flash animation. I would've posted the Flash if I'd been able but, unless I'm mistaken, I don't think that's possible in Blogger.
Do you have a url for the Flash? That would work. For me, the hermaphroditic is interesting; usually my avatars in SL are the same; they're sexual, but sexually indeterminate.
ReplyDeleteI do wonder why the Visible Human project has disappeared - whether there were lawsuits or some censor finding it 'inappropriate,' whatever...
There's a direct link to the Flash - rawLorem Ipsum - beneath the image. The url is http://www.runran.net/remix_runran/?p=696
ReplyDeletethanks greatly, I'm tired. I remember the original Time-Life cdrom by the way - you could 'fly' through the body in any number of directions, it was interactive. do you have any idea what the subsequent history of the Project was? are there other similar things on the Net? I remember the plastination shows (forget the exact word) by the way, of a few years ago - I think they originated in Germany, came to the US and Japan at least - plastic modeling of corpses; the tissues were filled with resin. - I wondered, also, in that situation, who the people were.
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