Peaceful Demonstrator Study
Public-space research programme investigating civic attention, paradoxical framing, and observable engagement. Proposed field and EEG studies are currently in development.
CV & Research Profile · 2026
Tobias Eder
Scientific Artivist and Empirical Aesthetics Researcher based in Berlin. Tobias Eder develops artistic interventions as experimental paradigms for studying aesthetic experience, attention, meaning making, and behaviour.
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Profile
Tobias Eder works at the intersection of empirical aesthetics, cognitive psychology, public-space research, and artistic intervention.
His projects use discarded objects, sculptural figures, mobile structures, and participatory situations to create experimentally useful aesthetic encounters. These paradigms make it possible to investigate perception, agency, semantic processing, reflection, and public engagement under conditions that retain material and social relevance.
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Selected projects
ALLESANDERSSTADT · WaMü Kollektiv
Six interactive miniature city worlds built inside discarded Berlin rooftop windows. Found materials, light, mechanics, political fable, and grassroots urban imagination form a transformation story.
Sustainable Reflecting
Human powered mobile installation made from reflective discarded materials, connecting physical reflection, personal effort, and sustainability related self reflection.
WaMüLage · WaMü Kollektiv
Participatory public installation at Tempelhofer Feld. Visitors contributed found or self produced rubbish to an evolving collective composition.
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Selected exhibitions & public presentations
2025 ALLESANDERSSTADT, Haus der Statistik, Berlin · WaMü Kollektiv
2025 Alternative, 90mil, An der Michaelbrücke 1, Berlin · Yanaverse
2024 WaMüLage, long term public installation, Tempelhofer Feld, Berlin · WaMü Kollektiv
2023 Tendermesh, GlogauAIR, Berlin
2023 Tendermesh, 90mil, An der Michaelbrücke 1, Berlin
2022 Ugly and Exciting, 637 Wilson Avenue, Brooklyn, New York
2021 Freedumb, Zemin Gallery, Berlin
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Research & artistic practice
Peaceful Demonstrator Study
Self-initiated public-space pilot conducted in 2024 and 2025. The current programme proposes a field experiment on public micro-engagement and a follow-up EEG experiment examining the processing of paradoxical and confirmative civic messages.
Research Assistant · Abdel Rahman Lab
Laboratory experience in cognitive and neuroscientific research at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin informs the development of experimental questions, study design, and artistic research paradigms.
Art in Science · Humboldt Graduate School
Interdisciplinary workshop exploring artistic methods as tools for scientific inquiry and public engagement.
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Education
2024 to present M.Sc. Psychology, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
2018 to 2023 B.Sc. Psychology, Hochschule Fresenius, Berlin
2021 to 2022 Exchange studies, New York
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Collective practice
Co founder and artist of WaMü Kollektiv · “Was ist Müll?” · “What is rubbish?”
WaMü encourages citizens to beautify the environment through art and to imagine urban development from the grassroots up through sustainable, creative recycling. The collective works across sculpture, painting, fashion, music, and theatre, with a consistent focus on sustainability, overconsumption, artistic spaces, and social discourse.
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Current interests & opportunities
Available for research, artistic, academic, and institutional collaborations.