New Media Artist #3 Shu Lea Cheang

Shu Lea Cheang was commissioned to create the first piece of web-based artwork in the famous Guggenheim museum. Her creation Brandon, is an tribute that tells the story of Teena Brandon. Teena Brandon was born a female, but chose to undergo the transformation to live life as a man. For this choice she was raped and killed. Cheang's work is a website composed of images that depict the lifestyle and and the sentiments that led to her murder. The page is pretty cool and fun to mess around with. It loads as a blank white page, but as you move the mouse cursor over the page a grid of images appear. After all the spaces are filled in the images will change to different ones.