The Avatar's Nature and Its Modern Modifications

DOI

10.2991/icassee-19.2019.79How to use a DOI?

Keywords

visual culture; avatar; virtual reality; social network; identification; physicality; embodyment

Abstract

Avatar is the phenomenon, which in its essence is the "representative" of the user the virtual environment. The avatar phenomenon contains the duality of its perception and its role in the sociocultural space. This ambivalence is clearly manifests in the positioning of the avatar in the visual arts and its “real” life in a virtual environment. In this article an attempt to understand the term "avatar" are taken. The historical insight allowed to outline the evolution of discourse and to draw conclusions about the fundamental difference between understanding the avatar features in the visual arts and in the sociocultural space. It was concluded that in a broad sense, an avatar realizes the need to “editting” the user's identity in the network and creates the illusion of superhuman, divine possibilities of influencing a character on a virtual network.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Violetta Dmitrievna Evallyo
PY  - 2019/11
DA  - 2019/11
TI  - The Avatar's Nature and Its Modern Modifications
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Art Studies: Science, Experience, Education (ICASSEE 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 384
EP  - 389
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/icassee-19.2019.79
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