Hey! How's it going? How would you like to pay today, cash, paypal or credit card? Why don't you try paying with your emotions! Here is an experiment in allowing subconscious emotional expression as a currency. An upturned mouth, or raised eyebrows can make you richer. At the same time, always smiling won’t be more welcomed than crying any more, because all emotions have equal value.
During the research, I found female streamers always do gendered interactions have the opportunity to purposefully shape an identity and spread their chosen characteristics online.
Different digital media platforms show a tendency to be gendered, with sites based on images, emotions, and craft considered feminine, and those based on analytics and knowledge exchange considered masculine. So do live streamings. Male-dominated game anchors were considered professional and strategic, and female anchors who accompanied chats were considered amateurish, pornographic, and made money off their faces.
I hope this project can help viewers focus on how femininity works in a gendered platform, such as makeup, interior decoration, and performance-based interactions.
My plan is to quatify emotion as a currency used in live streaming.
I build up a emotion desction scene in Unity.
By deconstructing the emotional exchanges that take place in my live stream, Moopay examines how emotions can be used as currency by viewers and the streamer. This project focuses on visualizing two main value exchanges: how the viewers evokes the emotions of the streamer, and how the streamer gives back to the viewers. In today’s male-dominated society, rationality is always emphasized and sensuality is always frowned upon. By using face detection to read the facial expressions of the streamer in real time, and the price for each emotion subjectively influenced by the viewers, I try to build a "subconscious" world using fluctuating emotional currency. Through this project, I hope to make the audience reflect on the possibility of an alternative space based on sensuality rather than rationality, subjectivism rather than objectivism.
