avatars

  • digital-humanities
  • social-media
  • philosophy
  • Representative small figures present in almost all cultures?
  • deities and idols
  • voodoo dolls and use in the occult
  • clown egg faces as copyright or just for posterity?
  • what was that book I read on second life avatars?
  • pic-crew style avatars as the latest in digital dress up dolls which came from paper dress up dolls
  • any AI driven or photo-supported or computer-vision-supported avatars like
  • in gaming - human fall flat, Miis, etc.
  • from Second Life -> VRChat
  • VR avatars and Vtubers and digital puppetry
  • physical forms from photogrammetry.
  • What would AR avatars look like?
  • FPS, just a hand and a gun
  • perspective of vs representation of
  • unable to capture decision and mannerism
  • accuracy, precision and perspective in reproductive works
  • and does accuracy even matter
  • holograms eg the ABBA tour
  • regenerated movement eg posthumous reanimation - ethical?
  • static representation more ethical than reanimated forms? reanimation akin to puppeteering a corpse? Does physicality make a difference? Learned models of Twitter accounts. Doppelganger.
  • ‘reanimation’ when to animate is to form new static states and constrict the transition over time - adding an artificial dimension to a corpse too reliant on artistic choice? Forming new stories of a person not reliant on either external circumstance or self-determined with autonomy - denying closure - humans form understanding through narrative
  • ai generated influencers