DIY Webcam Workshop: Melissa Gira
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Workshop Summary
By popular demand! Melissa Gira has been webcasting with her cams since 2000, and can orient you to the creative and potentially lucrative possibilities of the digital erotic. Whether you want to broadcast your bedroom 24/7 to a lucky membership-based audience, or craft intricate and raunchy sexual performances for the paying masses, this workshop will give you the practical tech and biz tools you crave. Melissa will cover the creation of a cam performer from the ground-up, from website development to web-ready costuming, from networking with sex businesses to networking your studio, from financing your project to finessing tech support, from balancing the books to balancing your work and your self.
Presenter Bio
Melissa Gira began webcasting with her shaktiCam in 2000, as part of her performance project, beautifultoxin, as well as in collaborations with filmmaker and digital artist, Kristie Alshaibi (Artvamp). Her work has ranged from running multiple 24/7 webcams to offering pay-for-play shows on her own sites and on one of the first woman-owned and operated indie cam sites, nakkidnerds. She is profiled in the upcoming book, "Camgirls: Webcams, LiveJournals and the Personal as Political in the age of the global brand" (Dr. Theresa M. Senft). Melissa's essay on webcam performance appears in Disinfo's "Generation Hex." You can view her live cam and five years of webcam archives at beautifultoxin.net. For more about her work, visit sacredwhore.org.
