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Big sister
Hanna Jakrlova
The cameras are operated from a separate studio and the content is transmitted to the Big Sister web site in real time. Tens of thousands of people worldwide enjoy the live virtual reality show for a fee, paid by credit card on the Big Sister Internet portal. The viewers visiting the chat room can interact with the girls, and become “engaged” in real time.
Big Sister: Satellite Love is a metaphor of our lives on and within the Internet. Virtual reality becomes a dilemma, an obsession, and an alternative for everyday life. The internet viewers pay for the real visitors’ free pleasure. Is it simply voyeurism or do the viewers become prostitutes of the visitors themselves? The idea shatters the fine line between virtual and actual realities. Life in this cyberspace playground is a game which one can never virtually play for free. “Virtually” being the key word.…