Ana Voog

Ana Clara Voog (born April 18, 1966)^[1] is a musician, visual artist, and writer from Minneapolis, Minnesota.^[2] Voog is the former front woman of The Blue Up?,^[3] a pop rock band from the Minneapolis area.^[4] On August 22, 1997^[5] Voog began anacam, the second webcam (after JenniCam) that broadcasts twenty-four hours a day live from a home.^[6]

Early life

Ana Voog was born as Rachael Olson^[2] on April 18, 1966^[2] to a Lutheran Minister father.^[7] She later changed her name to Ana Clara Voog. Although it was never legally changed,^[8] Voog has used it as her primary name. Voog attended high school in Stillwater, Minnesota.

anacam

On 22 August 1997, Voog began a webcam project named anacam. Besides a view into Ana Voog's personal life, anacam also incorporated performance art and visual experimentation. Daily activities such as cooking dinner, vacuuming, and hosting visitors fill out the non-interactive periods on anacam. Other activities on the webcam range from chatting with cam-watchers, playing music, and ornate performance pieces involving household items.

Ana Voog has been criticized for the portrayal of nudity and sexual activity, including masturbation and intercourse^[9] on her live webcam.

Voog distinguishes her site from pornography, stating that the "site isn't about sex, but sexuality and sensuality".^[9] In contrast with isabellacam, which is self-described as “a completely original take on female produced erotic content”, Voog views sexuality on anacam as a part of her life.^{[citation needed]}

From the beginning of anacam, Voog accompanied the webcam with a blog in a section of her site, analog and in her LiveJournal, started in 1999.^{[citation needed]} Voog transcribed her earlier, hand-written journals to her online blog.^{[citation needed]} In addition, she publishes poetry, stream-of-consciousness work, along with other writings.^[10] Voog also produced many varieties of art, including paintings, drawings, video, and photographs.^[11] A number of public archives of Voog's work have fallen into serious disrepair, although a representative selection has been published in J.D. Casten's book on Voog, Dreaming On Stage. Art installations by Voog have been hosted by the New York Museum of Modern Art, and in the Walker Art Center and the Weisman Art Museum.

In May 2002,^[12] Voog began to freeform crochet hats. Each is unique, and she sells them via her website.

On Voog's online work, Jorn Barger, who is credited with creating the first blog,^[13][14] states:

She was trying to live her life 100 per cent openly, which I thought was a righteous ideal. I wanted to emulate it in my own way by logging everything I found interesting, whether art or politics or silliness or even occasionally good porn.^[13]

A number of newspapers and magazines have written about Voog and anacam, including Newsweek, USA Today, Playboy, and Yahoo! Internet Life.

Television appearances include Hard Copy, Vibe, A&E, Net Cafe,^[15] and E!. She also appeared on an episode of the early "video blog" by Jennifer Ringley of Jennicam.^[16]

A documentary, Camgirls, which has been in post-production for years, is still scheduled to be completed, according to Adakin Productions.^[17]

Personal life

After over 10 years of debate, at the age of 30, Ana Voog had had saline breast implants inserted into her chest to increase their size.^[18]

On July 30, 2007, she and her husband had their first child, Lili Zuzu Voog.^[19] The child was conceived and birthed on cam. A second child, Violet Luna, was born on 8 February 2009.^[20]

Discography

Recordings by The Blue Up?

• "We are the Garden" b/w "It's My Life" (first single, 1986: vinyl)
• Now (EP 1987: vinyl; German version, 1988)
• "Everything Is" (on Kaleidoscope — Exploding Underground Compilation, 1988: vinyl)
• "Were You a Friend?" (on Let's Talk About Boys — German compilation 1988: vinyl)
• Introducing Sorrow (1989; was to be released by Midnight Music London, but they went bankrupt. Was then released in mp3 format in ana2.com, May 1999)
• Cake and Eat It (1992: CD and cassette)
• "Pink Turns to Blue" (on Du Huskers — Hüsker Dü tribute album, 1993: vinyl, CD, and cassette)
• "Breathe You Out" (1995: CD single)
• "Breathe You Out" (on Soundbites — compilation, 1995: cassette)
• Spool Forka Dish (1995: promo cassette)
• Spool Forka Dish (1995)
• "Frovarp" (on Minnesota Modern Rock — compilation, 1995)

Recordings by Ana Voog (solo)

• Mother Anorexia (demo) (on Radioactive — compilation, 1996)
• Telepathic You & Please God (on Radioactive — compilation, 1997)
• Please God (1997: promo CD)
• Anavoog.com (promo CD)
• Four remixes (on Hollywood Remixes, 1998: vinyl)
• AnaVoog.com (1998)

References

External links

• anacam - webcam site
• Ana Voog Digital Photo Archive at Deviant Art