Lisa Batey

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Lisa Emily Batey (born September 28, 1978 in Eagle, Idaho) is a lifecaster who streams live as Nekomimi Lisa[1] on Justin.tv and Ustream.tv. She is noted both for her extended interactions with viewers and for her pioneering innovations in this field. On Labor Day weekend in 2007, she began lifecasting from Japan while simultaneously streaming live images from her apartment in Brooklyn.

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[edit] Lifecasting

Batey was an early lifecasting pioneer at Oberlin College as an original participant and director of content with the now defunct Fragments of a Hologram Rose, founded by Erik Vidal, which operated HereAndNow.net where Batey and her housemates shared their college life experiences via live, unedited 24/7 video streams. Unlike JenniCam and other webcams of the time, Hereandnow.net webcast video in somewhat better video quality via Windows Media Encoder and was the first to stream both full motion video and audio. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

Batey occasionally presents her Bathtub Poetry sessions, a nearly decade-old tradition dating back to her segments on HereAndNow.net, now readings featuring viewers' original material. [7] She departed from HereAndNow.net in 2000 due to professional disagreements. [8] Hereandnow.net ceased broadcasting shortly thereafter. The Community still exists via a chatroom [9] and Yahoo! Group. [10]

In 2004 Batey had a minor role in an independent film. PDA Massacre. [11]

[edit] In the swim

Batey is a New York state licensed and nationally certified massage therapist. After graduating from the Swedish Institute College of Health Sciences, she pursued lymphedema management certification through the Academy of Lymphatic Studies. She is an ASCA certified swim coach and active with Team New York Aquatics and the US Masters team at the Brooklyn Dodge YMCA.

Since the revival of her lifecast in mid-2007 on Justin.tv and Ustream.tv, viewers have been able to follow her through her days at work and evenings at home in Brooklyn, tending to two cats and an overgrown garden. On August 23, 2007, she streamed via an audience-controlled Surveyor SRV-1 robotic webcam called "Nekobot."

In early 2008 she began making plans to move to Japan.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Nekomimi Lisa
  2. ^ Salon: "Real-life Truman Show", April 27, 1999. - Salon.com
  3. ^ Fame After Photography - Museum of Modern Art
  4. ^ Real live, uncut on the net college students sleeping, studying, partying - Cleveland Plain Dealer
  5. ^ Article from Le Monde (French, only paid access)
  6. ^ Les dossiers de l'audiovisuel - INA Article including a paragraph about HereAndNow.net which features Lisa Batey (French)
  7. ^ Student Bodies - Entertainment Weekly
  8. ^ His world and welcome to it - New Orleans Times Picayune
  9. ^ HereAndNow.net IRC Chat
  10. ^ Yahoo! Group
  11. ^ PDA Massacre on the Internet Movie Database

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