One Becomes A Woman
- Course project in Creative Design at Université Paris-Saclay
- Team: Catarina ALLEN, Beiqian LIU, Tiannan YANG.
- Date: Nov 2020 - Jan 2021
- My Contribution: Research, Ideation, Implementation, and Evaluation.
- Technology: P5.js, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, Bootstrap
Feminist Interactive Art Based On Eye-Tracking
The Male Gaze
As Simone de Beauvoir says in The Second Sex, “One is not born a woman, one becomes a woman.” In this book, she describes how society shapes women and affects her attitude towards her own body. She points out that whether a woman’s body is presented as positive or negative de- pends on the degree to which she herself is a subject, rather than an object of society’s gaze.
The male gaze is defined as the act of describing women from a masculine perspective, and regarding women as sexual objects that pleasing the heterosexual male viewer. The concept of the male gaze was first used by feminists in the film industry. The objectification of women also exists in visual arts and literature.
In this project, we focus on the research question:
How to design interactive art to raise awareness of male gaze’s influence on women, and help them adopt a more subjective view of their own body?
Design Process
Final Design
