webAffairs
Contributors: Allucquére Rosanne Stone (Contributor)
Publisher: Eighteen Publications
Published: September 1, 2005
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780918290021
First sentence: A friend of mine who now lives in Kuala Lumpur wanted to show me some live video on the internet of what her son looks like. I did the research and found a software used for interactive chat rooms. You hook up a webcam to your computer and you can broadcast images of yourself, as well as see everyone else in the room. My friend in Malaysia and I met only once in virtual space, but since then I have become a regular of this internet community.
Description: webAffairs is an artist's documentary of an adult video web community. In this book the artist, Show-n-tell, tells her story of being a voyeur and eventually becoming part of this community through a series of images and actual chat text. She participates in the community both as an observer and a performer. 
The electronic images gathered in chatrooms are transformed as photographic stills in the book. Because of the limits of the technology the image disintegrates into pixels which speak to a new sensibility in image making. 
This artist's book is a documentation of Show-n-tell's navigation through erotic virtual space. But like most documentaries, the material has been electronically edited and graphically redesigned to dramatically communicate her story.
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