What is it like to be a horse?

Description

What is it like to be a horse? - Using philosopher Thomas Nagel’s essay What Is It Like To Be A Bat as a starting point, and drawing on Speculative Design, Animal Computer Interaction (ACI), Game Studies and Post-Humanist discourse, Alan Hook will discuss some of his latest practice based research which explores the benefits and limitations of using games and play to help build inter-species empathy and understanding. The talk will present a body of emerging practice-based, interdisciplinary research which uses ‘making’ as a way to challenge anthropocentrism, explore how we might better understand the experiences of other species and reflect on animalility. The talk will showcase new research into how immersive platforms and gaming technology could help us explore what it might be like to live as a different species and how it could be used to reflect on what it is like to be a human-animal.

Period	4 May 2018
Held at	University College Cork, Ireland