Miss Digital World is the search for a contemporary ideal of beauty, represented through virtual reality.
This virtual beauty competition, strictly opened to exceptionally beautiful models designed in 3d graphic, has reached its third edition and is still attracting plenty of international designers. The winner of the first edition was the Chilean Katty Ko, in the second edition was crowned the Japanese Mi designed by Ichi Yoshimoto. This year The jury composed by Alceu Baptistao - designer 3d, Franz Cerami – designer, Lillian Hawkins – Renderosity Marketing Manager proclaim winner the Italian model Dark Eve.
Every age has its ideal of beauty, and every age produces its visual incarnation of that ideal: the Venus de Milo, an icon of ideal beauty in the Greek world, the Mona Lisa in the Renaissance, mysterious and eternal, the "divine" Greta Garbo, symbol of an ethereal and enigmatic beauty in the 1920s, Marilyn Monroe, the spontaneous and seductive beauty of the 60s.
Miss Digital World is created by Franz Cerami, digital artist and creator of Panorami Sintetici, Monumedia and Corto Circuito, and promoted by Monumedia and is attracting people from all over the world.
Miss Digital World, internet-based 3D digital installation, is an international collaborative work on digital identity.
In the last years famous and non virtual beauty models have been created after the great success of videogame heroines Lara Croft, digital anchorwomen like Ananova and cloned actors as the third series of the movie Matrix.
Miss Digital World is a digital and collaborative installation on digital identity and digital beauty, and has the aspect of a beauty pageant competition.
The rules, the graphic aspect, the morality of the models that want to partecipate looks like a real beauty pageant competition.
Here there is an abstract of the rules ot the competion:
"Miss Digital World" is the first beauty contest reserved for the likes of video game heroine Lara Croft, computer-cloned actresses from the "Matrix" films and new beauties tweaked to perfection with 3D graphics.
Digital artists, advertising agencies and video game programmers from around the world have been asked to send a computer design of their perfect woman to www.missdigitalworld.com, complete with date of birth and body measurements.
"Every age has its ideal of beauty, and every age produces its visual incarnation of that ideal from the Venus de Milo in ancient Greece to Marilyn Monroe in the 1960s," Franz Cerami, the creator of the competition, said.
"Miss Digital World is the search for a contemporary ideal of beauty, seen through virtual reality," he told Reuters.
Designers will programme their contestants to parade along a virtual catwalk, and there'll be a virtual presenter and virtual guests who will help create the atmosphere of a beauty contest.
The winner will be crowned at a flesh-and-blood conference in November 2004 and Cerami hopes the digital queen will go on to greater things with roles in video games, virtual reality films and adverts.
But beware those who think beauty need only be screen-deep. The virtual world has its ethical rules too.
"They should not have taken part -- not even as extras or cameos -- in pornographic films, shows or plays nor have made statements...in any way out of tune with the moral spirit of the competition," organizers said.
This virtual beauty competition, strictly opened to exceptionally beautiful models designed in 3d graphic, has reached its third edition and is still attracting plenty of international designers. The winner of the first edition was the Chilean Katty Ko, in the second edition was crowned the Japanese Mi designed by Ichi Yoshimoto. This year The jury composed by Alceu Baptistao - designer 3d, Franz Cerami – designer, Lillian Hawkins – Renderosity Marketing Manager proclaim winner the Italian model Dark Eve.
Every age has its ideal of beauty, and every age produces its visual incarnation of that ideal: the Venus de Milo, an icon of ideal beauty in the Greek world, the Mona Lisa in the Renaissance, mysterious and eternal, the "divine" Greta Garbo, symbol of an ethereal and enigmatic beauty in the 1920s, Marilyn Monroe, the spontaneous and seductive beauty of the 60s.
Miss Digital World is created by Franz Cerami, digital artist and creator of Panorami Sintetici, Monumedia and Corto Circuito, and promoted by Monumedia and is attracting people from all over the world.
Miss Digital World, internet-based 3D digital installation, is an international collaborative work on digital identity.
In the last years famous and non virtual beauty models have been created after the great success of videogame heroines Lara Croft, digital anchorwomen like Ananova and cloned actors as the third series of the movie Matrix.
Miss Digital World is a digital and collaborative installation on digital identity and digital beauty, and has the aspect of a beauty pageant competition.
The rules, the graphic aspect, the morality of the models that want to partecipate looks like a real beauty pageant competition.
Here there is an abstract of the rules ot the competion:
"Miss Digital World" is the first beauty contest reserved for the likes of video game heroine Lara Croft, computer-cloned actresses from the "Matrix" films and new beauties tweaked to perfection with 3D graphics.
Digital artists, advertising agencies and video game programmers from around the world have been asked to send a computer design of their perfect woman to www.missdigitalworld.com, complete with date of birth and body measurements.
"Every age has its ideal of beauty, and every age produces its visual incarnation of that ideal from the Venus de Milo in ancient Greece to Marilyn Monroe in the 1960s," Franz Cerami, the creator of the competition, said.
"Miss Digital World is the search for a contemporary ideal of beauty, seen through virtual reality," he told Reuters.
Designers will programme their contestants to parade along a virtual catwalk, and there'll be a virtual presenter and virtual guests who will help create the atmosphere of a beauty contest.
The winner will be crowned at a flesh-and-blood conference in November 2004 and Cerami hopes the digital queen will go on to greater things with roles in video games, virtual reality films and adverts.
But beware those who think beauty need only be screen-deep. The virtual world has its ethical rules too.
"They should not have taken part -- not even as extras or cameos -- in pornographic films, shows or plays nor have made statements...in any way out of tune with the moral spirit of the competition," organizers said.