bodies are liquid, your skin is not

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immersive story of multiple motion captured characters playing out in an interactive virtual environment

climate-ecologyculture-identity

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About

creating a story centring on embodiment of virtual avatars (theoretical basis on glitch feminism by legacy russel) in an immersive environment (VR & desktop/web app) built through physical/digital translation processes(VR sculpting, 3D scanning,...)

Impact

helping to understand potentials of virtual worlds, immersion and embodiment of virtual avatars as liberating and exploration of identity, while critiquing metaverse promises and visions popularized by big players with hugely commercial interests

Progress

developed workflow in unity to record, play and edit motion capture data, bought a mocap suit with external funding and partnered with a dancer/choreographer. worked on webVR and desktop web apps for digital art exhibitions and virtual experiences

Team

i am situated between graphic design and new media art, working on interactive 3d projects in various art and design contexts, involving quick learning and experimentation and have a network of people for most skills ofwhat i and my collaborator lack

Funding

No displayed figures preserved for this project.

Season totals as displayed on the platform's public accounting — not a statement of amounts paid out. V2 = Venus sales + Venus extras. The original page also broke each season down by fund drive and showed an Available (unclaimed) balance; that level of detail survives only on the preserved snapshots.

Leaderboard page (offline): https://artizen.fyi/projects/bodies-are-liquid-your-skin-is-not
Wayback: leaderboard page ↗ · Wayback: platform page ↗

Not recovered: creator, tags, links, funding, drives, submissions, snapshot. Sources: "snapshot" = verbatim Internet Archive page · "platform metadata" = archived artizen.fund page metadata · "leaderboard" = the artizen.fyi public accounting tables · "match catalog" = the platform's public fund-matching catalog (captured 2026-10-15, generated 2026-09-07) · "community catalog" = a June 2026 platform scrape preserved in a community repo.