Mirror: Material, Metaphor, Medium
Summer 2018

Alix Stria
:-)

Christopher Hoehn
A.I. Buddha

Christopher Hoehn
bent stainless steel

Alix Stria
Ceci n’est pas un miroir.

Julius Winckler
Chaotische Symphonie

Astrid Kraniger
Citizen Mirror

Julian Netzer
Diegetic Mirror

Sebastian Wolf
drawhearts

Astrid Kraniger
Eikasía / Is This Real?

Piet Schmidt
Encounter

Julian Netzer
je, moi et nous

Marcel Haupt
Le Je N’est Pas Le Moi

Piet Schmidt
Mirrored Reality

Julius Fuehrer
self-reflective mirror

Christopher Hoehn
The Fifth Wall

Andy King
There Are No Girls On The Internet
Piet Schmidt — Encounter
Mirror: Material, Metaphor, Medium — Summer 2018
Machines that behave like living creatures cause an uncanny feeling. Our mind realizes that we are dealing with an inevitably lifeless machine. Our intuitive perception on the other hand perceives a lifelike creature close to us and a social relationship forms. The machine observes its surroundings. If it senses someone, its attention focuses on the person. When a stranger approaches, it fearfully retracts. If the person moves away again, it follows curiously. After a short time it gets used to visitors and begins to play with them, holding the mirror up to them from different perspectives. Should we trust our intuitive perception? Does the border between man and machine fade away? When we try to create anthropomorphic machines, we only produce machines after all.




