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Our Digital Selves: My Avatar is Me

place-making and embodiment in virtual worlds
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Shyla (the Super Gecko) just alerted me that today is the anniversary of “Our Digital Selves”, my 2018 documentary about a 3-year study on embodiment and place-making in VR.

In the basement in Sansar at 114 Harves

I watched the trailer just now (on top of this post above the title 👆) - had not re-watched it for years - and man = it is quite powerful!

Meeting with Tom Boellstorff at Ethnographia (is he sleeping? Alumnia talks, Daisy listens)

If you have not seen the film, if you know of someone in the disability community who might find it interesting, if you have not commented: please watch it and share it. It is time well-spent.

2 years I travelled all over the world and spent time with wonderful people I had only known in Second Life (and Sansar) in avatar form.

Interviews were conducted in pools

It was eye-opening and life-changing for me.

Philip is selling the drugs to the VR curious

It feels good to look back on this and know that we put out something inspiring into this harsh and brutal world!

Interviews took place in-world, in private

(and it was good to see Ebbe Altberg - former CEO at Linden Lab - who is featured in the film and left us way too early)

Ebbe !!!

More to come in the documentary department, short-form, longform, any form = I promise ❤️

See you in-world

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