Performative Avatars 002
Updated: Feb 23, 2022
01/31/2022

photogrammetry

codemiko

Discussion questions based on last week's reading
question four:
When I create avatars, the first thing that comes to my mind is "something like me", but "like me" in what ways is the tricky part. I want to relate this to drawing things. Sometimes, illustrators or printers don't want to draw characters that look like them (maybe for commercial works, or they want to create a certain character for a certain story). However, the characters they draw will (even slightly) look like them. I believe it's because that "self" is the one that every people notice most in their daily life, even for those how don't like to look into the mirror, they grow up and be with their families for a long time and that person inherent it's the outlook from its family. In a word, "self" exists in the environment around a person, kind of fluid, so it's hard to say reflect who you are OR who you want; it's not a binary thing (at least to me).

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Assignment:

Question 1: unable to change the camera like Matt did in the tutorial.

Question 2: how is the name of these axis mapping related to other blueprints? Do they have to be written in this way to be recognized? (I think it's a little bit hard for me to understand only after watching the tutorials once fully, I'll watch them several more times, if I still can't figure out, I have to ask for helpđ)
Reading:
What Should Happen to Our Data When We Die?
Iâm interested in this topic, virtual/digital heritage, and peopleâs attitudes toward it. (I read this article in a pretty slow way, almost google every word/topic that interested me in the article). At the beginning of this article, after reading the part of âRoadrunner,â I was a little bit annoyed, offended, and angry; I couldnât stop wondering, âIsnât this kind of disrespectful? How about ârest in peaceâ??â. (But those strong feelings were eased little by the following part of the article, but I havenât come up with an overall idea based on this article and this topic, I just came up with some fragmented thoughts and recorded some sentences in the article that make sense to me or help me think.)
âThere is a sentence in the article â
âas if communicating from the afterlifeâ. But what if the person doesnât want communication in their afterlife.
âCarl Ohman, a digital ethicist, said this represents a huge sociological shift; for centuries, only the rich and famous were thoroughly documented.
ââWe donât know that he would have consented to have his voice manipulated.â
âShe described the decision to have the text read aloud as âa violation of autonomy.â
âAs Jean-Paul Sartre once put it: âTo be dead is to be a prey for the living.â I donât know how to understand this sentence. To me, itâs more like âTo be alive is to be a prey for the death.â
âIn February 2020, a South Korean documentary called âMeeting Youâ was released.
ââIf I do start interacting with these things, what does that say about my relationship to that person I loved? Am I actually doing the things that love requires by interacting with this new reanimation of them? Am I protecting the dead? Or am I exploiting them?â
ââWe have a rare chance to actually be ethically ready for new technology before it gets here,â
âHereAfter
âReplies
My question:
âWhy do people (company/law/âŚ) care about those things (ethical problems)?
What I think Iâm going to watch:
ââRoadrunner,â
âHer (the movie)