With the advent of online simulated experiences, a larger amount of human time is being spent participating in virtual environments where multiple users from around the globe interact. These virtual environments have become sites for significant cultural, economic and personal encounters based on telepresent interactions. This raises some significant questions for researchers and artists, for instance; how does technological embodiment change communication conventions and by consequence social interactions? How can the performance artist use these new forms of mediation? My project engages these questions by reversing the problem. In Avatar, social interactions that usually only happen in the virtual world are brought into the real. Avatar is a new media and performance-based work where multiple users are given complete control of their own performer via a wireless remote control device. Live performers are transformed into robotic puppets that respond to their user’s instructions and desires. If actors should be treated like cattle, as Hitchcock suggested, then Avatar provides the audience with the opportunity to do so. By remediating the avatar from a state of digital embodiment into a physical body, my project explores the tensions in mixed reality environments and interactions. In this hybrid environment, new codes of engagement must be learned through experimentation and experience.