Lotte - Draft Thesis Outline

Lotte - 1st Draft Thesis Outline

General introduction:

Coming from my work.. 
How spaces are made to behave and vice versa.
Talking about it in an immediate way
Architectural space / physical

Identity and sexuality are the major subjects in my work. More specifically I am interested in the way we view and shape our sexual identity through mediated spaces. I look at these spaces through different lenses, to create a distance from its explicit content, to re-contextualise it. The digital space as a space/place for sexual encounters has been the main focus of my work for the past years.


For the thesis I look at this online space as a liminal space and compare and draw parallels between on-line space and corporeal spaces. How do sexual encounters within a digital space, being a liminal one, create forms of desire and intimacy that differ from physical encounters? What inhabits this space?
In what way does the liminal digital world shape narratives that explore our sexuality and intimacy?

Introduction 


1. Background:

The digital space is per definition a liminal space. It changed the way we have sexual encounters. Specifically I am focussing on how these encounters in a digital space difference from a corporeal encounter. 



2. Thesis Statement:

 Engaging in online sex asks for us evoking a body (Waskul 2005). This is done through webcam images but also through typed words and other forms fantasy. How do we shape and form lust and desire within this liminal space? How do online spaces and the sexual encounters within it relate to corporeal encounters? 


Chapter 1 Architecture

Offline

Home / Studio
- Space
What do these spaces say without the digital translation and context of a website.

- decorations
- Personal Belongings

Online

Home / Studio
- Profiles
- Chatboxes (automated messages & gifs e.d.)

Chapter 2 Moderating

Home / Studio

The division between moderators.. Moderators who work as fans for the girls who work at home. Moderators who work in direct contact with the models who work from a cam-studio, sometimes even in the same space, also dubble function as a translator. 	

Chapter 3 Narratives of online encounters.

What are specific traits of digital spaces for sexual encounter? How do these attributes exist online? 

In what way does the liminal digital world shape narratives that explore our sexuality and intimacy?

The digital world one that is eminently suitable for exploring our sexuality because of it’s liminal qualities.

Sources

Sites Used myfreecams.com chaturbate.com ambercutieforum.com