‘On the necessity of a postmodern logic of the mirror’
Lecture by Dr Swantje Martach
The mirror was previously regarded as an instrument of reflection: it should reflect the self as authentically as possible. But does this logic still do justice to the mirror today, in an age of AI (Mirror App), metaverse avatars and virtual mirrors? Or do they not already function performatively in the sense of diffraction (according to Karen Barad)?
Dr Swantje Martach completed her doctorate in philosophy on ‘A Neo-Materialist Ontology of Dress’ at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the University of the Arts London. As a post-doc at the Institute of Aesthetics at the University of Preschau (Slovakia), she researched unseen beauties. Since March 2024 she has been working at the Academy of Fashion & Design in Wiesbaden. She currently edits the issue ‘Pictorial Practices of Dressing’ of the magazine IMAGE, and co-edits the book projects Atlas of Data Bodies and Deartification. On 23 January 2025 at 5 pm, she will speak about the mirror image in postmodernism in the lecture hall of the weißensee kunsthochschule berlin. The lecture is open to all interested parties.