Shedding Previous Avatar Identities – Open Call!

The “Shedding Previous Avatar Identities” Project!

When do digital identities and electronic foot-prints eventually need to be let go of? Does the Internet machine actually release them? Sooner than later perhaps, we need to take action, and induce a ritual to let them go. Is your online avatar still from 2009? Do we mourn parts of a “virtual” self-identity that has passed its time, outdated and lapsed? These animations below are investigations into the sentiment.

This project is seeking collaborative contributions from the Internet at large! Create a manipulated static or animated work of digital art from your outdated digital self (past/outdated avatar) and send it here as a spiritual offering to the metaphoric graveyard for outdated-virtual-avatars and Internet Identities! Im kicking off the project with my examples below.

(This project will make a great digital storytelling assignment, use it for your class perhaps?)

Cool Apps for image manipulation:

Imaengine – Tons of filters, vector conversions, stills & video

Hyperspektiv – Tons of filters, stills and video

Glitche’ – glitche.com – the ultimate, trust me.

Glitch Studio – tons of filters and animation options

ImgPlay – GIF & Video converting app (its a beast!)

 

–> E-mail submissions to – rseslow@york.cuny.edu <–

Or send via Twitter to @ryanseslow

 

Ryan Seslow, 2019, Animated GIF

 

Ryan Seslow, 2019, Animated GIF

 

Anthony Wheeler, 2019, Animated GIF

 

Tim Owens, 2019, Digital Still Frame

 

Sarah Honeychurch, 2019, Animated GIF

 

Ronald_2008, 2019, Animated GIF

 

Kevin Hodgson, 2019, Digital Still Frame

 

Inés Vañó García, 2019, Animated GIF

 

Alan Levine, 2019, Animated GIF

 

Mariana Funes, 2019, Animated GIF

 

Luke Waltzer, 2019, Digital Still Frame

 

Ricardo Deodutt, 2019, Animated GIF

 

Marvin Matias, 2019, Animated GIF

 

Karin Butler, 2019, Animated GIF

 

Qadeer Syed, 2019, Animated GIF

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