Please join us at the Centre for Culture & Technology’s Coach House for a Monday Night Seminar led by CCT Graduate Fellow and Cinema Studies Institute PhD candidate Cole Armitage:
Indexing Dimensions: Animation and Performance in the Virtual YouTuber Media Mix
Cole Armitage’s research investigates the phenomenon of Virtual YouTubers, or “VTubers” – anime-style characters or personas that are brought to life through motion-tracking technology on livestreaming platforms like YouTube or Twitch. He explores VTubing as a form of mediated presence and performance emerging at livestreaming’s encounter with the Japanese anime media mix, and focuses on the way in which the technological, performative, and labour conditions in which VTubing occurs, from improvisation to unmuted microphones, unsettle and reshape the way that the IP-based personages populating the anime media ecology relate to the performing bodies which bring them to life.