Delving into self-consciousness at EPFL

What if the key to conveying complex scientific concepts like self-consciousness was to bring art and science together? From 25 February to 1 March, EPFL ArtLab will play host to the Immersive Lab, which offers visitors an interactive, multisensory experience. Are those your hands you see on that panoramic screen? Maybe, maybe not. The Immersive Lab provides a unique interactive experience that combines images and sounds and brings visitors face to face with their self-consciousness. The Immersive Lab, which was developed by Daniel Bisig and Jan Schacher, two researchers at the Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology (ICST) at the Zurich University of the Arts, explores the potential offered by interactive and immersive media. The Lab was initially a platform for artistic creation and experimentation. Then in 2019, the artists expanded the lab's scope by joining forces with researchers at EPFL and the University of Geneva as part of a Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Agora project aimed at fostering dialogue between researchers and the broader society. Conveying a subjective feeling Researchers from EPFL's Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience run by Olaf Blanke have created an installation called Multiple Bodies, Super Egos and Virtual Identities .