An interesting experiment to see the world from another persons viewpoint - from another body of a different gender.
Vimeo: 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.
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Dumdeedumsays...Well that got pervy fast!
entr0pyThat's feminist technoscience for you.
Well that got pervy fast!
StormsingerSeems more like an experiment in how do you get people to synchronize their movements in such a way as to never touch anything gender-specific. Pretty useless... It'd be far more interesting to use photorealistic CGI so that the movements didn't have to be synchronized.
ZawashIn my opinion the special bit is that it is a live real person - that it is not an artificial CGI rendering...
dannym3141"Gender Identity, Queer Theory, feminist technoscience, Intimacy and Mutual Respect" -- I'm quite glad you didn't give feminist technoscience any capital letters. Apparently it does exist though, at least in basic form on wikipedia.
Surely separating yourself from the scientific and technological community at large is counter productive to the idea of feminism? The scientific "community" are only interested in if something is scientific or not and "sex" is something that happens to people who go to parties. At what point did feminism become associated with setting yourself apart as female - in an equal environment - and shouting about it?
On the other hand, if they're getting a grant to do scientific studies by calling themselves feminist, that's more cash going towards intellectual endeavours. I'd like to know what kind of science came from it, especially towards the end when they began peeking at each other's bits.
bcglorfsays...All I can think of watching this is that it falls under interdisciplinary studies.
"Gender Identity, Queer Theory, feminist technoscience, Intimacy and Mutual Respect" -- I'm quite glad you didn't give feminist technoscience any capital letters. Apparently it does exist though, at least in basic form on wikipedia.
Surely separating yourself from the scientific and technological community at large is counter productive to the idea of feminism? The scientific "community" are only interested in if something is scientific or not and "sex" is something that happens to people who go to parties. At what point did feminism become associated with setting yourself apart as female - in an equal environment - and shouting about it?
On the other hand, if they're getting a grant to do scientific studies by calling themselves feminist, that's more cash going towards intellectual endeavours. I'd like to know what kind of science came from it, especially towards the end when they began peeking at each other's bits.
robbersdog49Be honest, if you woke up as the opposite sex the first thing you'd do would be pervy. Real pervy
Well that got pervy fast!
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