Installation 2013
Alter Ego questions the mimetic inter-relationship between two persons. It creates a mental conflict of self-localization, a feeling of self-loss and a feeling of empathy at the same time. The work is foundation for a cooperative with neurophysiological researchers, e.g. with Prof. Alain Berthoz of at Collège de France in Paris. It plays an important role in the research areas of self-other perception and mechanisms of sympathy and empathy research and their disorders, e.g. schizophrenia and autism.
Biography:
Moritz Wehrmann (DE) studied media art and design at Bauhaus University, Weimar and at the College of Fine Arts, Sydney. His artistic focus lays on the creation of visual and spacial access to forms of the un/known through experiments, installations images and apparatuses. He is a researcher at the Internationalen Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie (IKKM) and has worked at the Cluster of Excellence Image Knowledge Gestaltung at HU-Berlin and held a scholarship by Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes.
