MIRROR ME: Interactive Cobotic Installation

We are surrounded by social and digital media that encourage us daily to present ourselves and place ourselves at the centre of what is going on. But how does it benefit us to keep drawing attention to ourselves? Why do we enjoy being in the limelight so much? The installation “Mirror Me” seeks to confront us with these questions. Initiated by the designer and creative director Andreas Schimmelpfennig and realised with the team from Elastique., it thematises the radical self-representation of our digital age.

Visitors can position themselves individually between two cobots with impressive mirror surfaces. The movements of the mirrors create endless visual echoes of the actual person. Four movement sequences and associated sound landscapes designed to evoke a range of emotions make Mirror Me a highly charged echo chamber of our ego.

An automatically processed video records the individual visit from three perspectives. The film, which can be downloaded, is to be understood as a targeted incentive to represent oneself again and to share the video on social media. The participants are thereby drawn into a loop of endless self-referencing.

Mirror Me is an immersive statement that makes use of the combination of art and technology to prompt people to think about the effects of being self-centred.