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Digitization of Identity in 3D Lecture by Snow Yunxue Fu with SAIC Global Encounter Series @ the Sullivan Gallery
March 2018

March, 29, 2018

The lecture showcases the artist research by Snow Yunxue Fu. It examines the possibilities inherent in current computer graphic simulation technology in terms of experimental cinema and contemporary media art. Especially on how the body is represented in media mirrors how we see and understand our own bodies and identities. A number of factors come together to determine our physical bodies, virtually all of which are out of our control, but through computer generated forms, whether through avatars, animation, or mainstream media, we simultaneously extend our identity to and seek our identity from those created bodies. This extension is limited by our current technology, as in the case of the uncanny valley.

The research presentation centers and showcases the shifting possibilities of meaning and concept in art making when natural human properties can be hyper-realistic and also artificially simulated to do the impossible.

The lecture is part of the SAIC 2018 Global Encounter Series, hosted at the Sullivan Gallery:
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