24.11.-05.12.2025

hunter eyes,
domestic trad wifes
and cute little hamsters

KISD Short-Term Project

Lecturers:  Lena Renz & dzennifer

Students: Henrike Hof, Annika Mechelhoff, Leijie Ding
Guest Talk: Johanna Teresa Wallenborn

The virtual realm works as a catalyst for the sexualized and standardized body. Detached from materiality, digital gender becomes an expression of anonymous fantasies and idealizations of female and male stereotypical attributes. Busty women and hyberbuffed male Gangsters move through the digital cities of GTA in bumpy-athletic motion, while online phenomena like meme culture represent supposedly female presence through cute little hamsters, sad baby cats and domestic tradwife lifestyle. This seminar dissects inherent power structures to rewind and unfold the spectrum of gender and self-expression. The following works use audiovisual media as a tool to liberate gender from our organic enclosures and break with social norms. Can gender be represented in digital space without showing a body? In what ways can we define, communicate and represent our identity through meme culture?