L1, Maya, and Misprint dwell in the data stream at Misprint's installation. This picture and video are part of my keynote presentation at the opening session of the NMC conference.
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Misprint Thursday with collaborating scripts contributed by Oberon Onmura and Cinco Pizzicato
This installation translates text communication into a visual form of communication. I e-mailed my idea--that "We create our senses of self in a virtual world through our interactions with each other. It is social and cultural, but it is done through computer-mediated communication."
I read around in cyberpsychology this past week and about CMC and it really threatened to ruin my second life for a little while. Made me worry that I was only talking to myself, or projections of myself, or idealized fantasies of others I projected onto the other avatars. But these gals are pretty real and despite my excellent imagination, I could not come up with them. Also I think that the critique of CMC that I was reading was based on asynchronous text, andin SL, the synchronous communication, strong visuals, immersive experience, my voice communications with some inworld friends, and extra-world communication like e-mail and non-SL IMs and chat go beyond the limitations described in some of the critiques I read, like this. Anyway, I think I don't care! Bring on the consensual hallucination.
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