Katja mater. Jealous of Your Avatar? The History of Avatars. iMedia caught up with Bonin Bough, the global director of digital and social media at PepsiCo, to get tips on how marketers can... Great moments, or at least defining ones, in the history of the digital aliases known as avatars. When I was first approached to do a piece about the history of avatars, I thought, sure. Why not? How far back could these computer-generated characters go? A decade? Avatars hit the mainstream in the form of Max Headroom, TV Star and New Coke Spokesman. One of the earliest online avatars, Ananova delivered dynamic newscasts. ICQ Devil Factory: Why settle for standard emoticons in your IMs when ICQ's "devil" avatars can say them out loud? SPEAK2Me.net's Lucy helps Chinese brush up on their English. Then I started digging.
The deeper I got into it, the more I realized that writing a definitive history of avatars -- beings who reside in virtual reality -- is tantamount to writing a comprehensive history of beings who reside in "real" reality, namely humans. Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body. Media Embodiment. Under våren 2014 pågår utställningen Tensta Museum: rapporter från det nya Sverige på Tensta Konsthall.
Till utställningen har studenter från KTH i Tensta, Arkitekturskolans förberedande utbildning i arkitektur och samhällsbyggnad, bjudits in att medverka. De har utgått från foton tagna av Trafikkontoret 1966-77 och tolkat dem i nya verk. Studenterna presenterar projekten på plats den 22 och 28 januari. I utställningen ingår även Aktion Arkiv, ett interaktivt arkiv för försvunnet material och odokumenterad kunskap om medborgarinflytande i planeringsprocessen. Utställningen är öppen till och med 18 maj. Biophilia. "Biophilia" Mark Cypher received a Master of Visual Arts in Sculpture, in 1995, from Sydney University, Australia, and is currently a Senior Lecturer and Program Chair for Multimedia at Murdoch University - Western Australia. Mark also began his PHD in 2004 researching Actor Network Theory in relation to interactive artworks. Cypher has participated in several international exhibitions, including “404” II International Festival of Electronic Arts, Rosario, Argentina, and “Biophilia” at the Perth International Arts Festival, Curtin University, Western Australia.
Cypher has also exhibited work in various museums and galleries across Australia, including , the Western Australian Art Gallery, Sunshine Coast Gallery, Melbourne Contemporary art show and the Casula Powerhouse, Sydney. Dream Anatomy.