Interactive Portraits: Trans People in Japan

Interactive dialogues about gender, revolution, and resilience. Warning: these works use glitchy visual effects that are probably not safe for people with photosensitive epilepsy. Please be careful! "All the time I'm having to make up stories. Because you are a friend, I can confess about it this way, but you know, if you'd interviewed me just like all the other interviews by people who are like, 'what is a transgender?' I would have had to lie." Explanation This is a series of works that came out of a residency carried out in early 2018 in Tokyo, with the Creator Ikusei project, which is supported by the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs. I adopted research techniques from ethnography and history, such as open-ended interviews and participant observation, and developed a method of representing the results of this research in a playful and interactive form that draws heavily from familiar interaction design …