Suddenly the human being is gradually loosing his primary interface in the material world, his body. The development of avatars demonstrates the necessity to establish agency in social virtual environments, something that we have been taking for granted in the physical world. The avatar as our virtual representation belongs to the same reservoir of self representation methods such as a photography, video, theater, fashion, dance. Representation often requires a stable point of refference, which encapsulates the start point of the journey of representation . For example fashion in real life does function as a medium of representation.
People use fashion to potray ideal states of a personal visual and behavioral status.
This situation is prompting us with opportunities and difficulties as well. The opportunity is the relative freedom of representation and design beyond the constraints of physicality. The development of an Identity is a continous process in real life . People express themselves in a variety of ways, send out a message of who they are and consequently receive feedback from the rest of the community they are interacting with. This externalization of the interior of the self is occuring with the use of physical and non-physical channels.