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Alternative title:
The Machine to Be Another - Gender Swap experiment
Year:
2014
Duration:
3m
Director:
BeAnotherLab
Country:
Spain
Producer:
BeAnotherLab
Screenwriter:
BeAnotherLab
Synopsis:
Gender Swap is an experiment that uses themachinetobeanother.org/ system as a platform for embodiment experience (a neuroscience technique in which users can feel themselves like if they were in a different body). In order to create the brain ilusion we use the immersive Head Mounted Display Oculus Rift, and first-person cameras. To create this perception, both users have to synchronize their movements. If one does not correspond to the movement of the other, the embodiment experience does not work. It means that both users have to constantly agree on every movement they make. Through out this experiment, we aim to investigate issues like Gender Identity, Queer Theory, feminist technoscience, Intimacy and Mutual Respect.
Color:
Yes
Sound:
Yes
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Title Gender Swap
Alternative title: The Machine to Be Another - Gender Swap experiment
Year: 2014
Duration: 3m
Director: BeAnotherLab
Country: España
Producer: BeAnotherLab
Screenwriter: BeAnotherLab
Synopsis: Gender Swap is an experiment that uses themachinetobeanother.org/ system as a platform for embodiment experience (a neuroscience technique in which users can feel themselves like if they were in a different body). In order to create the brain ilusion we use the immersive Head Mounted Display Oculus Rift, and first-person cameras. To create this perception, both users have to synchronize their movements. If one does not correspond to the movement of the other, the embodiment experience does not work. It means that both users have to constantly agree on every movement they make. Through out this experiment, we aim to investigate issues like Gender Identity, Queer Theory, feminist technoscience, Intimacy and Mutual Respect.
Color: Yes
Sound: Yes
Work type Short Film
Tags oculus rift, empathy, embodiment, the machine to be another, head mounted display
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Identifier 1403150362865
Entry date Mar 15, 2014, 4:06 PM UTC
License Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 3.0
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Author. Holder BeAnotherLab. Date Mar 15, 2014.
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