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Is Yahoo! prepared to accept the activist imagery of queer Tumblr? Amid the controversy over the indie social media platform’s May 20 acquisition by the web giant, the social value of Tumblr’s little-known subculture of “queer selfies” deserves wider recognition.
The first question today is whether Yahoo! is ready for the activist imagery of queer Tumblr. Last week, as rumors surfaced that the web giant would buy the quirky mini-blogging platform, media coverage often focused on the more disturbing sub-communities of Tumblr users. However, little attention has been given to the aesthetic sophistication of queer selfies on Tumblr, and their valuable articulations of general cultural problems.
Roughly defined, the queer selfie is a subgenre of the selfie that responds to queer issues including gender identity, counter-normative standards and celebrations of beauty, and otherness. The community is composed of diverse individuals with diverse concerns who respond to and comment upon other queer selfies. The queer selfie community is a purposeful ambiguity – it defines itself by individualism and aesthetics, not by manifesto. Queer selfies are usually created by artist
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Historical studies have shown that an improved physical appearance had profoundly beneficial psychological effects and behavioural outcomes. Plastic surgery became a vital tool in the 1930s, holding out the promise of removing the traces of war and eliminating prominent markers of ethnicity. In recent years the cosmetic surgery industry has grown in Australia, and as with all countries the common goal is the production of a narrowly defined culture of bodily beauty. Ryan looks at the cosmetic surgery industry and some of the artistic responses to such ideas and ideals, particularly those of artist Annabelle Collett.
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Monika Tichacek is an installation artist based in Sydney. Her performance installations exist as a space within fiction, dreamlike. In both of Tichacek's works I Wanna Be Loved By Youand Romancethe view of the human is mediated by a surveillance camera, echoing the receding of the surgically enhanced body from human towards post-human.
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Tiffany Parbs reinterprets 18th century medical tools to create works of small objects which carry with them an implication of an intimate relationship with the body
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