Medium Specificity/ Autonomy.

Minimalism/Donald Judd Reduced the theatrical/dramatic essence of an Robert Morris II avatar's presence to a single gesture.

Sculptural autonomy Created "An Essay on Robert Morris I = stereo-metric Harmony" (1739) - English influenced sculptural forms Minimalism Neo-Classicism

Edmund Burke's Architecture with a Pierre Etienne essay on the sublime singular Boulee Sublime (1757) presence. - French - English Direct Art-Historical Influences Structural Aesthetic related to thesis Formalism/Clement Limitations... research Greenberg Parameter rule-list

Creating infinite Serialism (Music)/ avatar design Arnold variety though the Schoenberg/Anton restriction of Webern, Pierre element repetition Boulez etc etc

Neo-Platonic De Stijl/ outlines of avatar Piet Mondrian/ form Theo Van Doesberg

Architecture as a Japanese Architecture as community of Metabolist hive-mind avatar organic modular Architecture "units"

Avatar as Template Explored Vedic Self (Humanoid/ Anthropomorphic) concepts in a Avatar Self as qualitative manner "Kalki" Jeremy Turner aestheticized as an embedded "SLebrity" (AvaStar interviewer. Magazine) Avatar accessories peripherals as extension of virtual Poetics of formal AVATARA in-world self (e.g. cars, Phillip Rosedale/ Avatar Open Source Avatar clothing) design/ Donato Mancini documentary Second Life Linden Labs customizability Identity Machinima

"Dead on Second Edited the Life" by Patrick "Flick" Friendly AI research documentation Avatar as xDxD.vs.xDxD - Harrison - Singularity Agent/Bot/AI. http://www.artisope process. Institute nsource.net/dosl/ma in.html Religious/Spiritual/ Qyxxql Merlin Philosophical LIFESTYLE Avatar as embodied Avatar as Template (informal) ActiveWorlds Circle of Fire Inc. Auto-ethnographic Architecture self Corporate/ Newton Dinzeo Professional The essential/ Avatar "Body fundamental "Theatrical" Virtual Worlds There.com Jeffery Ventrella presentations Influences I - Language" properties of avatar SECOND LIFE Worlds expression. Second Front (group) Raw Performance Actions/ Expressive/ Interventions. Emotional Gestures Avatar Facial Digitalspace Art Praxis (formal) Steve DiPaola Representation/ Luxury Sportscar Traveler Project Design Community Friction - Torso vs. full-body avatar design Wirxli as "SLebrity" considerations. (Avastar Magazine, Wirxli Flimflam Germany) (solo)

Avatar's Glam Punk relationship to Roomancer MOOVE Inc aestheticization/ custom room Fetishization design.

Each avatar's Explored the design reinforced I had 2 avatar "amateur" approach IAT 883 the amateurish Performer designs.. to avatar CONCEPTUAL quality of my performance. Avatars not having performances. CONTEXT MAP to conform to Real LIFESTYLE Related to Heim's Avatar Ontology/ Life (RL) Onto Distro (informal) Jeremy virtual world "Metaphysics of Phenomenological anthropomorphic Auto-ethnographic building classes - Importance of I conducted Turner's Virtual Reality" essence. concerns... AWEDU, Active Qualitative conducting research as an Avatar Design Avatar form can Worlds Ethnographic interviews with embedded Researcher Thesis also be approach indigenous community Research metaphysical. "experts" member. Past Art Projects Michael Heim Related to Research - Interests Qualitative - Autobiographical Methodological Practical Post-Modern implementation of Digitalspace Research Praxis Approach critique of "Virtual Realism" avatar design in phenomenological Traveler mainstream virtual Performances agency in Modernist worlds(?) abstract painting. Embodied Voice of Fire 2006 Modernism Surrey Art Gallery Avatar Design in Blurring of "I, Avatar: The relation to traditional Culture and "humanoid" and Mark Stephen figure/ground or Consequences of "anthropomorphic" Meadows avatar/architecture Having a Second stereo-types that relationship Life" are built into SL's Art Praxis (formal) GUI

Explored avatar presence and 4 generic Archetypes: mystique in various Avatar Purity - Text Achiever, Builder, found locations - Richard Bartle vs. Graphical Explorer and Socializer. Performance Art representation. Jeremy Turner The Gates (2001) Alberto Guedea Performed concerts Neo-Platonic sense as a musical Virtual Worlds of Avatar as ideally More genuine sense "band". Immersion Influences II - autonomous from of "pure" identity. Philosophers the RL self...

Learned about the concept of Performances did Consideration of "othering" and Henrik Bennetsen not "make sense" Produced "alien" "Performance-Artist Avatar Self as "positive alienation" Irwin Ziiz ZW from a non-alien performances. -in-Residence" honest extension of when exploring an perspective. Avatar Identity avatar ALT's autonomy. MOOVE Augmentation Performances Influence on Biotech/Nanotech Reinforced and Took on the role of as moving the roleplayed Roland Quagmire a Conservative Avatar boundaries Curatorial III Curator. outside of the Archetype. enclosed immersive virtual environment. Understood the essentials of performative Stalking action Palace "Strategies for presence even (2001) Performance Can the discrete Personality when reduced to and specific Avatar Transfer" - Terasem being a 2D icon Self become Journal of Personal immortal? Cyberconsciousness.

Explored Used Skype and William Sims The Hotmails (THM) performative MSN Messenger to VoIP Bainbridge VoIPunk band w. presence without perform live Performances Can an Avatar (as Alberto Guedea Agent or as newly the use of avatars. cyber-punk music. "The Rights of embodied avatar) Avatars" - Terasem have legal rights as Journal of Personal autonomous from Cyberconsciousness. the RL creator/user?

The multiple/windowed self (one versus ALT (alternate many avatar Sherry Turkle identities) representations of an individual self/user.

Bemes - personality units of consciousness. Terasem/ Quantification of Transhumanism/ Martine Rothblatt unique personality Extropianism traits/ idiosynchrocies

Social Sciences Influences Belief that the self IS an Otherdimensional avatar) Otherkin

Mediakin - Belief that one is a "fictional" character.

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