July 2000 (originally uploaded to echocam/artvamp.com)hardware: 3Com HomeConnect / PowerBook G3 (Wallstreet) software: Oculus I met Artvamp in May 2000 over LiveJournal. She was casting a digital feature about a woman named Echo who confronts 12 taboos and is followed by a videographer in the process: sex with a stranger, incest, a gangbang, etc. Artvamp sent me a webcam and I lived my audition for her on it during June, July, and August. This is my first webcam show. I used a gooseneck lamp from my desk to light it and monitored the live image on my laptop screen. The archive was posted to beautifultoxin.net, my webcam site, as well as to Artvamp’s site for the film. By the end of the summer, her website had 5000 members watching and remixing our images. Several people in the forums claimed that Artvamp and I were the same person. Erik Vidal, a new media entrepreneur (and the nephew of Gore Vidal), offered to foot the bill to stream video and audio (to his webcam house site Here and Now) live from our Chicago cast apartment, where I was due to move that August to begin filming. I visited Artvamp there in July 2000 and held casting sessions at the School of the Art Institute. Artvamp also posted mock advertisements for the film on several newsgroups, teasing people to break into the apartment and steal our cameras. After I began to fear (ultimately, unreasonably) for my safety under such conditions, I backed out of Other People’s Mirrors and Artvamp stepped in to play the role of Echo herself.

July 2000 (originally uploaded to echocam/artvamp.com)
hardware: 3Com HomeConnect / PowerBook G3 (Wallstreet) software: Oculus

I met Artvamp in May 2000 over LiveJournal. She was casting a digital feature about a woman named Echo who confronts 12 taboos and is followed by a videographer in the process: sex with a stranger, incest, a gangbang, etc. Artvamp sent me a webcam and I lived my audition for her on it during June, July, and August. This is my first webcam show. I used a gooseneck lamp from my desk to light it and monitored the live image on my laptop screen. The archive was posted to beautifultoxin.net, my webcam site, as well as to Artvamp’s site for the film. By the end of the summer, her website had 5000 members watching and remixing our images. Several people in the forums claimed that Artvamp and I were the same person. Erik Vidal, a new media entrepreneur (and the nephew of Gore Vidal), offered to foot the bill to stream video and audio (to his webcam house site Here and Now) live from our Chicago cast apartment, where I was due to move that August to begin filming. I visited Artvamp there in July 2000 and held casting sessions at the School of the Art Institute. Artvamp also posted mock advertisements for the film on several newsgroups, teasing people to break into the apartment and steal our cameras. After I began to fear (ultimately, unreasonably) for my safety under such conditions, I backed out of Other People’s Mirrors and Artvamp stepped in to play the role of Echo herself.

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