{"id":5192,"date":"2010-02-11T23:45:55","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T23:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=5192"},"modified":"2010-02-11T23:45:55","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T23:45:55","slug":"grad-student-explores-questions-of-race-through-digital-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=5192","title":{"rendered":"Grad student explores questions of race through digital technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/research.news.yorku.ca\/2010\/01\/28\/grad-student-explores-questions-of-race-through-digital-technology\/\" target=\"_blank\">Grad student explores questions of race through digital technology<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/research.news.yorku.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">News &amp; Events<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yorku.ca\" target=\"_blank\"><em>York Univeristy<\/em><\/a>, Toronto, Ontario<br \/>\n2010-01-28<\/p>\n<p>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 <em>Toronto Star<\/em> (online) Jan. 27 [2010]\u00a0in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/sciencetech\/technology\/article\/756402--the-many-faces-of-race-research#article\" target=\"_blank\">story<\/a> that included <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/sciencetech\/technology\/article\/756402--the-many-faces-of-race-research#photo\" target=\"_blank\">five photos<\/a> of him.<\/p>\n<p>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. \u201cBut I also want to be playful. (Mixed race) is a serious issue but I don\u2019t want to be heavy-handed.\u201d..<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/research.news.yorku.ca\/2010\/01\/28\/grad-student-explores-questions-of-race-through-digital-technology\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grad student explores questions of race through digital technology News &amp; Events 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]\u00a0in a story that included five photos [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,19,6],"tags":[2115,2117,2116],"class_list":["post-5192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-canada","category-new-media","tag-brian-banton","tag-toronto-star","tag-york-univeristy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}