The Growing Brain, The Shrinking Ego: Self and Identity Redefined in the New Media Age

Teresa Wennberg · Leonardo · 1999

In this article, the author discusses her virtual reality installation The Parallel Dimension and goes on to explore the loss of identity experienced when a viewer is confronted with VR. She suggests that the dislocations caused by this experience may require us to formulate a more fluid and multivalent concept of the self.

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