Abstract
Between incarnation and decorporalization, certain immersive works engage the viewer’s body in a space of confusion where the work becomes a physical and sensory experience. In Cameron Kostopoulos’ virtual reality work In the Current of Being (2025), the body is at once subject, medium, and symptom of a fragmented and painful reality. The body and its double become a medium of political and emotional expression, navigating the “gray zones” that link voyeurism, exhibition, and empathy. By analyzing the recent VR works In the Current of Being by Cameron Kostopoulos, The Dollhouse by Charlotte Bruneau and Dominique Desjardins, and The Exploding Girl by Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel, we ask: What does the immersion of the simulated body (double) do? How does it relate to the body of the viewer? What does immersion add to traditional art questions?
Presenters
Anna CharrièreStudent, PhD Student, Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris, France Miguel Angel Almiron
Media Artist and Professor, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
2025 Special Focus—From Democratic Aesthetics to Digital Culture
KEYWORDS
IMMERSION,VIRTUAL REALITY,SIMULATED BODY,CORPOREALITY,EMPATHY,VOYEURISM,EXHIBITION,VR,XR
