Digital Bodies and Disembodied Voices: Virtual Idols and the Virtualised Body
The Japanese virtual idol, a computer-generated media celebrity, is a product of an historical moment in which structures of data have seemingly supplanted physical materiality. The attempt to create a media personality entirely from digital code highlights both a long-standing obsession with simula...
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| Language: | English |
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Open Humanities Press
2006-01-01
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| Series: | Fibreculture Journal |
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| Online Access: | http://nine.fibreculturejournal.org/fcj-054-digital-bodies-and-disembodied-voices-virtual-idols-and-the-virtualised-body/ |