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For the final project this semester I will be working with Lyndall on an installation that bridges the Second Life platform, projection and video while exploring notions of performativity and identity construction.
The concept is based around the creation of and experience as avatars within the program Second Life. We’re looking to explore some of the ways in which identity is built within the choices made in the building of avatars, but also how one interacts with those sharing the same virtual space as they embody their chosen online identity.
We will be interviewing 4 people both in ‘real’ time and space and also within Second Life. All of the videos taken inside Second Life itself will be projected on opposing pieces of velum towards the front of the space and in the back 2 corners of the room will be 2 computer stations set up with headphones to watch the live interviews with those involved. Each projected medium (both projection and computer screen) will be randomized so that the connection between Second Life avatars and the people behind them become blurred. By drawing attention to the modes of production in an installation and experiential new media performance space we hope to be able evoke questions of identity construction and the online experience of identity.
Here is a copy of our floorplan:
