Hello Avatar

Author : B. Coleman
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-05
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780262549899

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An examination of our many modes of online identity and how we live on the continuum between the virtual and the real. Hello Avatar! Or, {llSay(0, "Hello, Avatar!"); is a tiny piece of user-friendly code that allows us to program our virtual selves. In Hello Avatar, B. Coleman examines a crucial aspect of our cultural shift from analog to digital: the continuum between online and off-, what she calls the “x-reality” that crosses between the virtual and the real. She looks at the emergence of a world that is neither virtual nor real but encompasses a multiplicity of network combinations. And she argues that it is the role of the avatar to help us express our new agency—our new power to customize our networked life. By avatar, Coleman means not just the animated figures that populate our screens but the gestalt of images, text, and multimedia that make up our online identities—in virtual worlds like Second Life and in the form of email, video chat, and other digital artifacts. Exploring such network activities as embodiment, extreme (virtual) violence, and the work in virtual reality labs, and offering sidebar interviews with designers and practitioners, she argues that what is new is real-time collaboration and copresence, the way we make connections using networked media and the cultures we have created around this. The star of this drama of expanded horizons is the networked subject—all of us who represent aspects of ourselves and our work across the mediascape.

Author : B. Coleman
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-04
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780262015714

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Hello Avatar by B. Coleman Pdf

An examination of our many modes of online identity and how we live on the continuum between the virtual and the real. Hello Avatar! Or, {llSay(0, "Hello, Avatar!"); is a tiny piece of user-friendly code that allows us to program our virtual selves. In Hello Avatar, B. Coleman examines a crucial aspect of our cultural shift from analog to digital: the continuum between online and off-, what she calls the “x-reality” that crosses between the virtual and the real. She looks at the emergence of a world that is neither virtual nor real but encompasses a multiplicity of network combinations. And she argues that it is the role of the avatar to help us express our new agency—our new power to customize our networked life. By avatar, Coleman means not just the animated figures that populate our screens but the gestalt of images, text, and multimedia that make up our online identities—in virtual worlds like Second Life and in the form of email, video chat, and other digital artifacts. Exploring such network activities as embodiment, extreme (virtual) violence, and the work in virtual reality labs, and offering sidebar interviews with designers and practitioners, she argues that what is new is real-time collaboration and copresence, the way we make connections using networked media and the cultures we have created around this. The star of this drama of expanded horizons is the networked subject—all of us who represent aspects of ourselves and our work across the mediascape.

Author : Deborah Willis,Ellyn Toscano,Kalia Brooks Nelson
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781783745685

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Women and Migration by Deborah Willis,Ellyn Toscano,Kalia Brooks Nelson Pdf

The essays in this book chart how women’s profound and turbulent experiences of migration have been articulated in writing, photography, art and film. As a whole, the volume gives an impression of a wide range of migratory events from women’s perspectives, covering the Caribbean Diaspora, refugees and slavery through the various lenses of politics and war, love and family. The contributors, which include academics and artists, offer both personal and critical points of view on the artistic and historical repositories of these experiences. Selfies, motherhood, violence and Hollywood all feature in this substantial treasure-trove of women’s joy and suffering, disaster and delight, place, memory and identity. This collection appeals to artists and scholars of the humanities, particularly within the social sciences; though there is much to recommend it to creatives seeking inspiration or counsel on the issue of migratory experiences.

Author : Michael Rymaszewski
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780470096086

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Second Life by Michael Rymaszewski Pdf

This text on Second Life, the virtual world with more than 240,000 residents, will help all residents fully enjoy the metaverse. The guide explores every aspect of this multilayered world, including scripting, building objects, buying and selling items, and socializing.

Author : Joshua Pruett
Publisher : Insight Editions
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781683833925

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Avatar: The Last Airbender: Legacy of The Fire Nation by Joshua Pruett Pdf

In this new scrapbook Avatar: The Last Airbender’s beloved character Uncle Iroh shares his memories and mementos with Prince Zuko. In Avatar: The Last Airbender: Legacy of the Fire Nation, discover long-kept secrets carried by Uncle Iroh as he records his stories for Prince Zuko. Read letters from family, friends, and more in this special collection of mementos and keepsakes. Iroh has held many roles in his long life, including crown prince of the Fire Nation, mentor to Prince Zuko, and ally of Avatar Aang. In the peace following the end of the Hundred Year War, Iroh has compiled many thoughts, memories, artifacts, and stories from his long life to share with Prince Zuko. Filled with amazing removable mementos from Iroh, Avatar: The Last Airbender: Legacy of the Fire Nation presents an exclusive look into one of the series’ most-loved characters.

Author : Timothy Hickson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0473694042

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On Writing and Worldbuilding by Timothy Hickson Pdf

Author : Uri McMillan
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479897766

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Embodied Avatars by Uri McMillan Pdf

How black women have personified art,expression,identity, and freedom through performance Winner, 2016 William Sanders Scarborough Prize, presented by the Modern Language Association for an outstanding scholarly study of African American literature or culture Winner, 2016 Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History, presented by the American Society for Theatre Research Winner, 2016 Errol Hill Award for outstanding scholarship in African American theater, drama, and/or performance studies, presented by the American Society for Theatre Research Tracing a dynamic genealogy of performance from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, Uri McMillan contends that black women artists practiced a purposeful self- objectification, transforming themselves into art objects. In doing so, these artists raised new ways to ponder the Intersectionsof art, performance, and black female embodiment. McMillan reframes the concept of the avatar in the service of black performance art, describing black women performers’ skillful manipulation of synthetic selves and adroit projection of their performances into other representational mediums. A bold rethinking of performance art, Embodied Avatars analyzes daring performances of alterity staged by “ancient negress” Joice Heth and fugitive slave Ellen Craft, seminal artists Adrian Piper and Howardena Pindell, and contemporary visual and music artists Simone Leigh and Nicki Minaj. Fusing performance studies with literary analysis and visual culture studies, McMillan offers astute readings of performances staged in theatrical and quotidian locales, from freak shows to the streets of 1970s New York; in literary texts, from artists’ writings to slave narratives; and in visual and digital mediums, including engravings, photography, and video art. Throughout, McMillan reveals how these performers manipulated the dimensions of objecthood, black performance art, and avatars in a powerful re-scripting of their bodies while enacting artful forms of social misbehavior. The Critical Lede interview with Uri McMillan

Author : Anirban Ray
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595461868

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God Behind the Firewall by Anirban Ray Pdf

Arun is a computer expert bored with his job testing software at an Internet security company. Although the position pays well, Arun begins to question the meaning in his own life after he experiences odd dreams that leave him shaken and sweaty each morning. A new mentor helps Arun find more challenging work, and he soon finds himself developing breakthrough technology that could dramatically change the future of the computer industry. But first, the gifted young programmer must battle his own personal addictions in the midst of a search for the leader of an evil Internet crime ring. As Arun begins to understand the true power of the new technology he is building, he discovers his own personal potential as well. Supported by the woman he loves and the wisdom of his mentor, Arun struggles to conquer his enemies and step forward into a new life where the dimensions of technology and spirituality can coexist in peace. Technology and spirituality converge in God Behind the Firewall, a fascinating look at the parallels between the world as science has defined it and the spiritual realm hidden in the deepest corners of the human mind.

Author : Michael Teitelbaum
Publisher : Insight Editions
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1608874478

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Avatar: The Last Airbender: Legacy by Michael Teitelbaum Pdf

Aang, the much-loved hero of Nickelodeon’s hit animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender, takes readers on an exciting and interactive journey through his thrilling world. Earth. Air. Fire. Water. These are the four nations that lived in harmony until the Fire Nation attacked. For the next hundred years, war raged across the globe. It was believed that all inhabitants from the Air Nation had perished. Then, a girl and her brother discovered a twelve-year-old boy frozen in an iceberg. His name: Aang. He is the Avatar, the master of all four elements. Together Aang and his friends went on to save the world! Now a man, Aang looks back on these adventurous years—from being found in the ice to fighting epic battles to negotiating peace. This is Aang’s story, his mementos, and keepsakes. Avatar: The Last Airbender: Legacy is the collection that Aang passes down to his son Tenzin, who will one day be a master Airbender, too. Readers will relish Aang’s heroic tales and the posters, clippings, cards, and maps he gathered along the way! About the Insight Legends series Insight Legends is a collectible pop culture library featuring books that take an in-depth look at iconic characters and other elements from the worlds of comics, movies, television, and video games. Packed with amazing removable items that give the books an immersive, interactive feel, the series delivers unparalleled insight into the best-loved heroes and villains in modern fiction and the worlds they inhabit

Author : Aimee Weber,Kimberly Rufer-Bach,Richard Platel
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007-10-22
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780470171141

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Creating Your World by Aimee Weber,Kimberly Rufer-Bach,Richard Platel Pdf

Enrich your virtual existence by mastering the techniques and tactics the experts use to create jaw-dropping SL content—everything from buildings and vehicles to clothing, landscapes, and animations. This official, exclusive guide from a team of Second Life content-creation experts was written with the full support of Linden Lab and features in-depth instructions for creating beautiful content and putting it to work in-world. It’s both a practical, step-by-step guide and a creative session with some of the most artistic and talented minds in the Second Life community. CD included.

Author : Ann Latham Cudworth
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781466579613

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Virtual World Design by Ann Latham Cudworth Pdf

Learn How to Create Immersive Virtual Environments Written by an award-winning designer with 20 years of experience designing virtual environments for television and online communities, Virtual World Design explores the intertwining disciplines of 2D graphics, 3D models, lighting, sound, and storytelling. It illustrates how these disciplines come together by design in the creation of an accessible virtual environment for teaching, research, and entertainment. The book gives anyone the tools and techniques to design virtual environments that support their message and are accessible by all. With 200 illustrations and 12 step-by-step projects, the book delivers hours of creative challenges for people working in public virtual worlds or on private grids. Using the modular components available for download on the author’s website, readers learn by building such things as a virtual classroom, an "all-access" terrain, and a sound-based game. This book can be the foundation for class work in distance learning, simulation, and other learning technologies that use virtual environments. It shows both novices and advanced users how 3D composition, color, lighting, and sound design are used in the creation of an immersive virtual environment.

Author : Dana Moore,Raymond Budd,Edward Benson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007-03-15
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780470149720

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Professional Rich Internet Applications by Dana Moore,Raymond Budd,Edward Benson Pdf

Through the use of hands-on examples and case studies to explain complex technologies, this comprehensive book takes AJAX, Ruby on Rails, and Flash to the next level by combining them into a framework for developing rich Internet applications Walks readers through using all aspects of each application, looking at the overall architecture and then breaking down the client-side and server-side technologies, while still maintaining a focus on the desired functionality of an application Also includes coverage of such various technologies as DHTML, JavaScript, XSLT, Java, Python, PHP, and more This book is also available as part of the 4-book JavaScript and Ajax Wrox Box (ISBN: 0470227818). This 4-book set includes: Professional JavaScript for Web Developers (ISBN: 0764579088) Professional Ajax 2nd edition (ISBN: 0470109491) Professional Web 2.0 Programming (ISBN: 0470087889) Professional Rich Internet Applications: Ajax and Beyond (ISBN: 0470082801)

Author : Gregory Price Grieve
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317293255

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Cyber Zen by Gregory Price Grieve Pdf

Cyber Zen ethnographically explores Buddhist practices in the online virtual world of Second Life. Does typing at a keyboard and moving avatars around the screen, however, count as real Buddhism? If authentic practices must mimic the actual world, then Second Life Buddhism does not. In fact, a critical investigation reveals that online Buddhist practices have at best only a family resemblance to canonical Asian traditions and owe much of their methods to the late twentieth-century field of cybernetics. If, however, they are judged existentially, by how they enable users to respond to the suffering generated by living in a highly mediated consumer society, then Second Life Buddhism consists of authentic spiritual practices. Cyber Zen explores how Second Life Buddhist enthusiasts form communities, identities, locations, and practices that are both products of and authentic responses to contemporary Network Consumer Society. Gregory Price Grieve illustrates that to some extent all religion has always been virtual and gives a glimpse of possible future alternative forms of religion.

Author : B. Coleman
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-16
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780262327909

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Putting A Face on Things, digital original edition by B. Coleman Pdf

A crucial aspect of our cultural shift from analog to digital is the continuum between online and off-, the “x-reality” that crosses between the virtual and the real. Our avatars are not just the animated figures that populate our screens but the gestalt of images, text, and multimedia that make up our online identities. In this BIT, B. Coleman looks at the research history in HCI of putting a face on things, the consequences of virtual embodiment, and our perception of simulation.

Author : Philip C. Stead
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781596438095

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Hello, My Name Is Ruby by Philip C. Stead Pdf

Fearless Ruby, a plucky little bird, ventures through life, making new friends, learning new skills and asking questions which may have some very surprising answers.