GENDER ID; Cast

Stephen Hues the Choreographer, Principle Performer and Costume Designer of Gender ID

I met Stephen in the Fall of 1988 in a Video Dance course at Ohio State University, where I was studying computer animation and he was in the dance program.  Our mutual interest in Art & Technology and Experimental Storytelling has fueled many brainstorming sessions.  The clip below shows the first thing we made that served a purpose*.  It is the program for Stephen's final project.  Play the video to see how we thought Dance and Performance could be represented in a printed program.

* This program was not our first creative collaboration.  A few weeks prior we painted our face, took selfies (before the word existed), picked new names (I picked Storm because it looked like it was about to.) and went  to a dance club (or three.)  We were Club Kids while the NYC Club Kids were still in diapers.

MIRRORS, Electronic and Mechanical

ELECTRONIC MIRRORS

Jim Campbell, 1999 - present

Motion and Rest 5 of 6 (2001)  Total Running Time: 42 seconds 

from Low-Resolution Works: Motion and Rest Series

Custom electronics sample every 20th pixel of a pre-recorded 640 x 480 digital video clip.  The sampled pixels are assigned to a 32-column x 24-row grid of LEDs (totaling 768 LEDs) 

This series depicts disabled individuals as they walk. Campbell reduced the information to the point that only the gait remains intelligible—only the movement, no other factor of the individual’s appearance, remains expressively meaningful.

Look to See By Looking by Richard Shiff,

Daniel Rozin, 2001-present

Mirror No. 5 (2001) by Daniel Rozin
Total Running Time: 1 min. 12 seconds

from Software Mirrors Series

Rozin's Software Mirrors redefine the building blocks of his animated digital images. His pixels have a more complex characteristic. In Mirror No. 5 they are pacman-like figures driven to get across the screen. While in motion, and viewed closeup, they spin and chomp. But step back and you can crudely see yourself along with anyting else taht happens to be in front of tFYALEhe camera.  

from the Artist's website

Kurosh ValaNejad, The Body Scrub Device, 2013-2018


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MECHANICAL MIRRORS

PinScreen Animation, Alexandre Alexeïeff , Claire Parker,  Paris, 1932

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Closeup of Device

Pinscreen Ward Fleming 1987

Daniel Rozin, 1996-present

from Wired on YouTube, June 2019

Stop Motion Animation - Yale Univesity Card Catalog, March 2012

MIT Tangible Media Lab, inFORM, dynamic shape display, Nov 2013

HypoSurface by dECOI/MIT
MIT Architecture Dynamic Walls

GENDER ID; Sources and Meanings of Symbols

Gender ID filter

There is not an official set of gender identity glyphs because there is not a finite set of identity types.  The 2 sets below have 32 and 18 symbols=types. Facebook has fluxuate from 51 to 71The first set below is by an anonymous graphic designer with the user name of caaloba-d81ds6u. It is the most referenced set on the internet, despite its redundancy I also included some symbol from the Transguide website of UC Riverside.And to lighten the tone, I included the roundabout traffic sign. These are the symbols which comprise the filter for my thesis project.