E-Media Virtual Identities testing

I have begun testing techniques to get the artwork about virtual identities started. My first tests involved trying to remove the identity of a person. I filmed the subject in front of a wall and then used the clone tool in after effects to lay skin over their facial features to conceal their identity. 

No identity

These images i feel evoke a sense of fear, in a way i suppose this is the same feeling some people have about there own identity or the internet. People fear of having their identity stolen, there credit cards, there information. And these images evoke fear from them in a different nature. The images i tried to create are meant to have some shock value to them. I want the viewer to wonder who that person is. I want the viewer to question is that actual a person or a creature. In the nature of an online environment people often hide behind a different identity and this is what I am trying to portray with the next two images. What i have done is taken facial features from other people and the tried to construct a new face using another persons features.  

Always watching

Mouth for eyes

E-media Virtual Identies

I have been looking at various videos from artists such as Christopher Baker and Natalie Bookchin and I found the way they are portraying video diaries of people really interesting. Natalie Bookchin - My Meds

My Meds from natalie bookchin on Vimeo.

Christopher Baker Blurb about the video from his website christopherbaker.net On one hand, new media technologies like YouTube have enabled new speakers at an alarming rate. On the other hand, no new technologies have emerged that allow us to listen to all of these new public speakers. Each video consists of a single lone individual speaking candidly to a (potentially massive) imagined audience from a private space such as a bedroom, kitchen, or dorm room. The multi-channel sound composition glides between individuals and the group, allowing viewers to listen in on unique speakers or become immersed in the cacophony. This is another work that i find quite interesting and how it comments on mobile communication technology and how these sounds shape our senses. The artist Robbie Cooper is also quite fascinating especially his work immersion which uses the expressions of children interacting with screen based media. DE PROXÉMICA - Virtual Reality / Video Art Instalation. Science Nation - Avatars