Resumen de Transgender identities in postmedia audiovisual narratives
Despite an increasing development of transgender studies within particular fields since the early 1990's, it has only been in the last decade or so that an explosive growth of transgender visibility has been experienced in popular culture in the West. The rapidity of progress, compared to previous social movements, is due in large part to the ubiquity of online and digital communication technologies. Access to such media has also provided production and publishing opportunities for artists, especially those identifying with marginalized, ostracized or previously overlooked demographics like the transgender community.
Given the situational relationship between these technologies and trans artists, this research asks how and what a trans artist such as myself utilizes, produces or publishes as part of a multimedia creative practice, and posits that there are shared characteristics that exist between many transgender and postmedia experiences.
In order to answer these research questions, this text deploys and blends both subjective and critical voices within a connective exegetical model. I analyse the new knowledge represented by the work and processes of the related creative practice through the further development and application of extant concepts of transgender phenomenology. And, ultimately, the very undertaking of this text itself is presented as an autoethnographic action and a political statement of lived experience.
