The gender dragon
http://www.sdcitybeat.com/cms/story/detail/the_gender_dragon/7545/Katherine Sweetman
12/2/2008
Artist/activist goes from he to she and creates an experimental art project in between
"What if you go insane and become a dragon forever?" I ask Micha Cárdenas as she leads me through UCSD's Calit2 building toward her lair.
"Well, it is a risk I'm taking, but it's a calculated risk," Cárdenas says as we walk through a maze of white hallways in the strange high-tech building. We reach a set of double doors, and beyond those doors is a large dark room flanked by pulsating red lights. On the back wall is a huge, beautiful projected image of a dragon. It's a still image of Cárdenas' avatar, the dragon she'll live as for 365 hours in Second Life.
