AVATARES. Love Plus. ÍDOLOS VIRTUALES. Hatsune Miku. Her - Official Trailer (HD) Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams. Idols and Celebrity in Japanese Media Culture. FCJ-054 Digital Bodies and Disembodied Voices: Virtual Idols and the Virtualised Body | The Fibreculture Journal : 09. Daniel Black Monash University, Australia Introduction The virtual idol, a computer-generated media celebrity, is a figure representative of a cultural milieu in which arrangements of data seem interchangeable with physical materiality. We are currently in an historical moment when form, information and data are widely understood to be rendering matter, physicality and flesh increasingly redundant. Popular and academic accounts of the body as discourse, behaviour as genetically programmed and digital information systems as rendering spatial relationships and physical interaction irrelevant, for example, are all dominant discourses of the ‘information age’.
This mode of understanding is perhaps a prerequisite for the appearance of the virtual idol, a figure animated by digital data, an immaterial substance into which seemingly anything – even the body itself – can be translated. The Virtual Idol The Charm of the Virtual The Artificial Body Simulation and Representation The Virtual Body N. Summer Wars - Trailer. Descripción. Arlindo Machado - EL SUJETO EN LA PANTALLA (p.147) VIDEOCULTURAS DE FIN DE SIGLO (p.12) Régis Debray - VIDA Y MUERTE DE LA IMAGEN (p.238)
ELECTRONIC CULTURE. Technology and virtual representation (p.242) Kimberly Bartosik - TECHNOGENDER BODY (p.231) Steve Dixon - DIGITAL PERFORMANCE (p.212) Steve Dixon - DIGITAL PERFORMANCE (p.211)