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The company's product ‘e.m.i.s.’, short for eternal mind in space, promises a digital copy of each individual's consciousness. Personal data of each visitor is recorded in advance and woven into the design of the scenographic and thus personalised space. To this end, the results of image and text searches or social media data are incorporated into the VR world and confronted as design elements of individual consciousness. Central questions of transhumanism, counteracting naturally given boundaries and digital identities are addressed and critically reflected upon. Fictional elements and real artefacts in the form of personal data are merged in a dreamlike and surreal way. Known and unknown spaces emerge simultaneously, an interplay of determining and allowing oneself to be determined. The project is a collaboration between Carolin Schabbing (KISD) and Lisa Reutelsterz (KHM).