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research: empathy

My recent research is about exploring the idea of empathy through our relationship with a mechanical objects to explore emotions. Emotion is a subjective experience, associated with mood, temperament, personality. Emotions such as affection, anger, anxiety, desire, despair, disgust, grief, fear, joy, jealousy, rage, sadness, surprise, between others are what makes the interaction between living creatures a relationship that feels alive.

The functionalist approach to emotions holds that emotions have evolved for a particular function, such as to keep the subject safe. Empathy is explored through selected emotions and reactions, proper to living creatures: Curiosity and Fear or sadness and anger.



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		research: empathy My recent research is about exploring the idea of empathy through our relationship with a mechanical objects to explore emotions. Emotion is a subjective experience, associated with mood, temperament, personality. Emotions such as affection, anger, anxiety, desire, despair, disgust, grief, fear, joy, jealousy, rage, sadness, surprise, between others are what makes the interaction between living creatures a relationship that feels alive. The functionalist approach to emotions holds that emotions have evolved for a particular function, such as to keep the subject safe. Empathy is explored through selected emotions and reactions, proper to living creatures: Curiosity and Fear or sadness and anger.

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		“Resulting from or showing sincere and intense conviction” Video/Closed-circuit installation


		Urban Arts Space, Columbus, Ohio April 19-May 14, 2011
		20 feet long rojection composed by 2 projections side by side. In the center of the room, pacing the projection is a table with two chairs inviting the public to sit down and participate of the scene. One projection is a video of me sitting on one side of a table, reading a break up letter. The other projection is a closed circuit of the person sitting on table in the room. The composed image makes the person sitting on the table appears like they were on the same table that me, and I am reading them the letter. I believe that in a regular video, the viewer wouldn’t empathize with the person recorded as they would with a live person, but in this installation, the viewer becomes part of the scene, and therefore is more connected to the narrative. The body seems unnecessary, since it is present but only as a virtual body, and the viewer is watching himself being read at. >>> go to JOURNAL (documentation)

		March 2011