Shu Lea Cheang: Brandon: 1998

The website entitled Brandon by Shu Lea Cheang is a very emotional and disturbing work of net.art. This site is emotional in that it explores the death of an innocent individual who did not deserve to die. It is disturbing because through this exploration the viewer starts to feel some of the pain that this individual suffered through and the cruel nature that our society can sometimes press on us.

The individual from this site is Brandon. Brandon was a cross-gender individual who was raped and murdered in 1993 after his female anatomy was revealed (1). Shu Lea Cheang takes this horrible incident and turns it into a work of art that brings awareness to the pressures of our society and the expectations we have about genders. This site shows it's relevance to net.art through it's use of text to portray feelings and it's interactive qualities such as rollovers.