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2007 Rockefeller New Media Foundation Proposal
Abstract
Trans-Tamagotchi: Virtual Trans Ranch by Kathy High is a proposal to develop tamagotchi-like
virtual pets, along with an extensive website that will act as a hub for their activities. Trans-Tamagotchi:
Virtual Trans Ranch is being produced to encourage 1) familiarity with the work
that transgenic laboratory animals are engaged in and 2) an "interspecies culture" where care
and empathy is rewarded.
Date Issued
2009-03-30Subject
web art; wireless technology; re-engineering; hacking; games; Tamagotchi; virtual reality; virtual life; artifical life; interspecies interaction; human-computer interaction; human-animal interaction; ethics; care; empathy; Becoming Animal exhibition; transgenic organisms; gene technology; genetics