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     What happens to our bodies in a world filled with promises of virtual image perfection?  Here, I try to visualize this question by appropriating some of the growing genre of “belly punching” videos on the internet and then confounding it with typical, experimental 3D animation modeling --and then mixing this all to the music of artist Khia-- in hopes of ‘pushing for reversal and collapse’.

     In a world filled with extreme desire, ultra competitive visuality and virtual-human representation, might we be hurting ourselves in order to reconnect to true bodily sensation?  Are our bodies reacting to the unattainable realities of image manipulation?  Or is self-injury and attention-seeking two sides of the same male-media-image coin?   Why do we like to hurt ourselves...and then publicly show it all to the world?  It is a question worth asking.