The Event

PNN.com announces the new "Altered Barbie Web Show," focusing on the recent San Francisco Altered Barbie recycled art show, presented by ChatterBox Intl. and Curated by Julie Andersen. By incorporating Barbie in recycled object art, this unique show celebrates the diversity of viewpoints surrounding the controversial doll, personal image awareness, and stereotypical gender rolls in society. "When Julie told me the show was about Barbie and recycled art, I knew the PNN audience would find it fascinating. Many people are unable to travel to San Francisco to see such a show, so I wanted to bring the show to them," says Jennifer J., PNN.Com Marketing Director. "The artists really open up and talk about their work, their stories and especially their unique viewpoints and philosophies on Barbie herself." The Altered Barbie event featured over 75 artists and their work, which ranged from a Barbie replication of The Last Supper, to a floor to ceiling George Washington Barbie picture from the Goatee Nation Project.

With two episodes currently on YouTube and alteredbarbie.pnn.com. Jennifer forecasts a new direction for mini-web-shows and media broadcasting. "The internet is the wild west for new media," she says, "no longer do people feel comfortable with a few big companies owning everything. Video bloggers are staking claim to new, vastly unexplored web locations and PNN.Com wants to help them define that space." PNN.Com is slated to release the Altered Barbie Web Show at the beginning of every week through October.