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Part of the Impakt Festival 2019

Virtual Reality and Body Ownership

Mavi Sánchez Vives, Miguel Ángel Rego & Mark Farid

31 October 2019
15:45 — 17:15


Location: Het Huis Theatre Hall

Virtual environments offer neuroscientists new possibilities that can simulate natural events and social interactions. VR interfaces can change our personality, but how is this possible? Are we already living in a virtual reality? We will look at processes of body ownership, body-trauma, phobias, and biases.

Mark Farid Miguel Ángel Rego Robles Virtual Reality and Body Ownership Mavi Sánchez-Vives Natalie Dixon

Mark Farid

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Mark Farid is a conceptual artist who examines the formation of our projected-self, and how our constructed identity is shaped by societal expectations. Farid graduated from Kingston University, London, with a First Class (Hons) degree in Fine Art in 2014, and has since given talks and participated in group and solo exhibitions in England, France, Germany, Denmark, Finland, Slovenia, UAE, and Japan. Farid gave a TEDx talk in 2017 about his first two projects, Data Shadow (2015), and Poisonous Antidote (2016), and took part in the Sundance New Frontier program, 2016, for an on-going project, Seeing I (2020). A 7 day pilot of Seeing I was exhibited at Ars Electronica Digital Arts Fesitval, 2019.

Miguel Ángel Rego Robles

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Miguel Ángel Rego Robles (Madrid, 1985) is an artist and researcher who lives in Madrid, Spain. He studied Fine Arts at the Complutense University in Madrid and is currently working on his PhD at CSIC (Spanish National Research Council). He attained a Master degree in Art and Praxis at the Dutch Art Institute in Arnhem, the Netherlands. He has exhibited his projects in Spain (MUSAC León, LABoral Gijón, Casal Solleric Palma, Fabra i Coats Barcelona, Galería Cero Madrid, Casa Velázquez Madrid among others) and internationally (Artrooms London, Celeste Prize London, The Showroom Arnhem, XX and XIX Bienal Cerveira Portugal, Charim Gallery Viena among others). He has lectured his research in Spain (CENDEAC Murcia, La Situación 2016 Cuenca, CSIC Madrid among others) and internationally (8th European Society for the History of Science London, Centro de Investigación en Arte, Materia y Cultura Buenos Aires among others).

Virtual Reality and Body Ownership

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Mavi Sánchez-Vives

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Mavi Snchez-Vives uses VR to understand how the brain creates an internal representation of the world and of ourselves. Her laboratory combines immersive virtual environments with behavioral and physiological measures to investigate how the input from different sensory streams sculpts such representation – as well as how virtual environments can be used in medical and therapeutical applications. Mavi is ICREA Research Professor and head of the Systems Neuroscience group at the Institute of Biomedical Research Augusto Pi y Suñer in Barcelona. She is co-Director of the Event Lab (Experimental Virtual Environments in Neuroscience and Technology) and founder of Virtualbodyworks.com.

Natalie Dixon

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Dr. Natalie Dixon is the co-founder of affect lab, an Amsterdam-based interdisciplinary research studio. Dixon’s research explores issues of belonging, otherness, race and gender through the lens of media and technology. Her research has been published in multiple international peer-reviewed journals and featured in the media. Most recently she was awarded the 2018/19 Het Nieuwe Instituut Research Fellowship for her project titled ‘How to Read a Story About Burn-Out’ that explored gender, migration, women’s work and burn-out. Dixon is a visiting lecturer at ArtEZ University of the Arts (Arnhem) where she is currently developing a vision for The Body Lab to explore the human-technology relationship and sensory methods for design. She is an alumna of the University of Amsterdam and Goldsmiths College (London).

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