Friday, December 19, 2008

Virtual Transgender Suit, avatar termination and other online world tales

Virtual Transgender Suit, avatar termination and other online world tales

...A study by psychologists at Nottingham Trent University has found that 54 percent of all males and 68 percent of all females "gender swap"--or create online personas of their opposite sex.

A real life manifestation of that practice, the Virtual Transgender Suit replicates the aesthetics of the typical virtual female form and catapults them within a real world context. The piece was specifically designed for men to wear in the real world, creating a bridge between real (where cross-dressing is not really socially accepted) and virtual...


See the pics and read more here: http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2008/08/marc-owens-who-designed-the.php


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