The Internet has opened the door into our most private spaces and virtuality has infiltrated our bodies, merging reality and fiction. The first cam-girls of the 90s were important early examples of how the internet could create a cyborg subject by integrating human images with the internet, setting the conversation regarding the relationship of technology and gender, sex and the performative body.
The work @syntia_cam focuses on the concept of the mask (or avatar) in online sex work. Sex workers deal with their avatars every day, transcend the boundaries of their physical bodies, enhance their performance, hack their identity and fabricate their image, gender and sexuality. Through three first-person experiences, the work reflects on the processes of negotiation and construction of fictional identity, deconstructing the social perception of sex work and contributing to its destigmatisation.
