Collider Getting Sick, 2018 -2019

Virtual reality (VR) installation, two rl bodies, touch, virtual body’s outer surface, virtual body’s inner surface, headset

sound Kris Limbach + Lisa Müller-Trede

exhibited at

Shatto Gallery, Waveform exhibition, CultureHub, Los Angeles, USA, 2019

SCSMI, The Annual Conference of the Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image, Hamburg, G, 2019

Breaking the Glass Frame: Women and Animation, Past, Present, Future, Los Angeles, USA, 2018

published in

‘Virtual Bodies and Their Implications on a Sense of Agency’ in Spectator, 2020.

Explores the relational concepts of agency and impact in the context of gender, both in a literal and figurative sense. Utilizes the unique sensation of embodiment and the body’s lack of haptic resistance which is specific to virtual worlds. Asks who is permitted to choose between Proust/Bergson/Deleuze’s notions of the virtual and the actual by separating the visual and the haptic realm, thereby merely allowing for an unpredictable and heteronomous experience of touching and being touched.

thanks to Ramiro Cazaux, Maks Naporowski, Eric Hanson, John Brennan, David Nessl, Ana Carolina Estarita Guerrero, Szilvia Ruszev, Vincent Bohossian | Human Engine, Los Angeles