The Avatar Matters: Analytic Alternatives to understand Materiality & Gender

In the last ten years, we have experienced a rise in online virtual worlds with online practices that jointly connect with our offline practices. The virtual world Second Life is one of the most interesting examples of this, where the user is simultaneously engaged in both online and offline practices via his/her avatar.

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The Avatar Matters: Analytic Alternatives to understand Materiality & Gender   by Stine Johanne Thiesen

 

New Article in TEGN no. 3

I have contributed to TEGN  no. 3, Dec. 09 with a brand new article called: “Emotionel branding - den internetmedierede udstilling”.

The article focuses on Internet exhibitions and the use of emotional branding to motivate users to engage in the process of curating. In the article, a new museology is being defined to come closer to the understanding of space and content in digitalised exhibitions.

Read the note from the editor here:

http://www.emu.dk/gym/fag/bk/forening/tegn/forord_3_09.html

Homogeniteten søger pluralismen – artikel i Tegn

Tegn – tidsskrift for kunst og design, nr. 1 marts 2008:

Homogeniteten søger pluralismen

- en diskussion af den kulturelle oversættelse indenfor den nye museale diskurs

af Stine Johanne Thiesen

http://www.emu.dk/gym/fag/bk/forening/tegn/forord_marts08.html