Actor & Avatar - A Scientific and Artistic Catalog

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.

About the author

Dieter Mersch, Emeritierter Professor für Ästhetik und Theorie an der Zürcher Hochschule der Künste und bis 2021 Präsident der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Ästhetik.Anton Rey (Prof. Mag.), geb. 1959, studierte Germanistik, Philosophie und Theaterwissenschaft in Zürich und Berlin. Er arbeitete als Dramaturg und Regisseur u.a. in Zürich, Berlin, München und Wien. Seit 2002 lehrt er an der Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, wo er seit 2007 das Institute for the Performing Arts and Film (IPF) leitet.Jörg Sternagel (Dr. phil. habil.) arbeitet als Akademischer Rat am Lehrstuhl für Medienkulturwissenschaft mit dem Schwerpunkt Digitale Kulturen an der Universität Passau. Er ist Mitglied im Beirat der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Ästhetik. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Alterität, Bildlichkeit, Medialität und Performativität.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Assisted by: Thomas Grunwald (Editor), Thomas Grunwald et al (Editor), Lorena Kegel (Editor), Miriam Laura Loertscher (Editor), Dieter Mersch (Editor), Anton Rey (Editor), S (Editor), Jörg Sternagel (Editor)
• Publisher: Transcript
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.11.2023
• EAN: 9783837667615
• ISBN: 978-3-8376-6761-5
• No. of pages: 312
• Dimensions: 258 mm x 30 mm x 316 mm
• Weight: 1895 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general); Film, Philosophie, Informatik, Künste, Bildende Kunst allgemein, Allgemeines, Wissenschaft, Film, Kino, Media, Media Studies, Media Theory, Cultural Studies, Theory of art, Social interaction, Philosophy, The arts, Media Philosophy, Artistic Research, Philosophy and psychology, Culture and institutions, Public performances, Recreational and performing arts, Computer art (Digital art), Avatars, Neuroscientific Investigations on Perception, Technological Others