What kind of relationship do we have with artificial beings (avatars, puppets, robots, etc.)? What does it mean to mirror ourselves in them, to perform them or to play trial identity games with them? Actor & Avatar addresses these questions from artistic and scholarly angles. Contributions on the making of »technical others« and philosophical reflections on artificial alterity are flanked by neuroscientific studies on different ways of perceiving living persons and artificial counterparts. The contributors have achieved a successful artistic-scientific collaboration with extensive visual material.
Biografie (Dieter Mersch)
Dieter Mersch ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter an der Freien Universität Berlin. Zahlreiche Veröffentlichungen vor allem zur Philosophie der Gegenwart.
Biografie (Anton Rey)
Anton Rey, Leiter des Institute for the Performing Arts and FIlm (ipf) und Dozent für Theorie und Dramaturgie der Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (ZHdK). Herausgeber der Reihe subTexte.
Biografie (Jörg Sternagel)
Jörg Sternagel (PhD) teaches Media Studies at the University of Potsdam. His current research focus is film and phenomenology.