Virtual Animals: An Ethical Discussion
Wed 08 Oct
|Immersium
Join us at the Immersium to hear Dr Judith Benz-Schwarzburg discuss the ethics of digitally representing animals.
Time & Location
08 Oct 2025, 17:30 – 19:30
Immersium, Habsburgergasse 10, 1010 Wien, Austria
About the event
Dr Judith Benz-Schwarzburg discusses the chances and challenges of virtual animals and the implications for ethical representation. The talk starts at 17:30 but attendees are invited to come early (at 16:30) for free entrance to the exhibition "Planet der Tiere" at the Immersium.
Speaker Bio: Dr Judith Benz-Schwarzburg is an animal ethicists from the Messerli Research Institute. She works at the intersection of animal cognition and animal ethics. Her research addresses the (implications of) complex socio-cognitive abilities like culture, language, theory of mind, or morality in animals. Thereby, she is also interested in how representations of animals (for example in picture books or contemporary art) refer to the animals' perspectives, to their subjectivity and agency, their welfare and rights. Please register to attend the event by clicking the button at the top of this page. This helps us to keep track of numbers. If you forget to register don't worry, come anyway!
