* ROBOT & THE END: A Comparative Critical Reading of the Staging of Synthesized Voices in Digital Media Performances

In this article, I present a critical comparative reading of the experiences of gender promoted by media performances that make use of synthesized voices in relation to the 3D animated vocaloid performance THE END (2012) and the multimedia dance performance ROBOT (2013). I argue that the staging of synthesized voices in THE END promotes a gender performativity of the heteronormative gender binary, creating a sexualized fetishization of the technological body. ROBOT, on the other hand, as a media performance utilizes the audio-visual bsody of a little robot to subvert gender stereotypes, demonstrating that the visual contextualization and framing of the synthesized voice matters in the representation of identities in digital media performances

Identification as Process in Participatory Design

In this workshop we invite participants to discuss and map techniques, approaches and principles to address processes of identification in Participatory Design endeavors. The key objective of the workshop is to present identification as process as a concept to think with, and to explore how different lenses can engage workshop participants in thinking about participatory design endeavors in connection to this concept. As the outcome the workshop participants produce set of principles for identification as process for PD work