Grad student explores questions of race through digital technologyPosted in Articles, Arts, Canada, New Media on 2010-02-11 23:45Z by Steven |
Grad student explores questions of race through digital technology
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York Univeristy, Toronto, Ontario
2010-01-28
The technology to turn oneself into a mixed-race avatar might be confined to movies, but Brian Banton plays with racial manipulations of himself online, wrote the Toronto Star (online) Jan. 27 [2010] in a story that included five photos of him.
As a York graduate student, he explores questions of racial hybridity as related to corporate design. Much of the work is obscurely theoretical, Banton says. “But I also want to be playful. (Mixed race) is a serious issue but I don’t want to be heavy-handed.”..
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