Lucy Henry's presentation

Lucy did Eva and Franco Mattes, who created avatars, and Adrienne Jenik and Brennes, who created desktop.

Mattes' "Annoying Japanese Child Dinosaur" shows a Japanese woman as a geisha, perhaps? She's obviously Japanese because of her eyes and she is part of an exhibit. I really enjoyed the Ameshin Yossarian (which is a triptych! yay!) Aimee Weber is another avatar by the Mattes and again, i find it very interesting because it shows how people want to be and not necessarily what they look like. it show society's impression on what perfection is. they also use a photographic way of taking the pictures by using the beautiful angles of photography.
Second Life is another thing that the Mattes invited which is basically a second life in which you have to take care of yourself, just in a virtual world. Reminds me of the SIms. So they were, I guess, the founding parents of avatars

Jenik and Brennes helped create desktop theater. This allows the characters to interact, chat, stage performances, etc. It's almost like a chatroom except with idealized (i suppose?) people where they can interact without any fear of judgement.

I really liked the Icon War with sounds. It was amusing and creative.

Overall, I felt that Lucy has a lot of interesting information but needs to organize it better so that we can understand it better. Like I said before, the information was great and fascinating and i felt she herself talked about it well. However, the organization of the power point was a little bit unclear. Would the exhibit be filled with computers with people making their own avatars and having them interact all together? I feel that this would be a very successful exhibit, if in fact, this is what her idea was.