DressMe

 
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 DressMe is self portrait as digital game. Much like dress-up games that young girls play online, the ultimate purpose of the game is simply to dress the avatar. However the avatar is not a nameless woman or celebrity standard to this genre, but instead it is a depiction of myself, and the clothes are all illustrations of my own wardrobe.

DressMe captures ideas of performative self-representation, and the creation of identity through an audience as I give up agency by allowing another person to dress me.

What does it mean for my self, to ask others to identify themselves in my representation when the game is bounded by choices I've created? In Dress Me, the player may be collaging my illustrations and representations of my own wardrobe, but in doing so they are creating their own self-expression and the player and I become interchangeable.