Department of
DIGITAL ARTS/ Ruth SchnellThis talk will combine a discussion of the bodily and
philosophical basis of Somatic Archiving with a very small glimpse of the CATALYSTS – Somatic Resonance installation.
The talk will open a consideration of phenomenologies of affect, refinements of phenomenological method that permit the sensing
and reflection of complex and liminal body states, and will permit the audience members to download the CATALYSTS
app and to test it with 2 images from CATALYSTS, an artistic collaboration with Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir, Jeannette
Ginslov, Keith Lim. The artistic and philosophical work together contribute to a formulation of somatic materialism.
Susan Kozel has worked for many years at a precarious balancing point between
dance, philosophy and responsive digital technologies. She is a Professor at Malmö University's School of Art and Communication
in Sweden. With an international profile as a contemporary phenomenologist, she applies philosophical thought to a range of
embodied practices in digital cultures. Her research takes the form of both scholarly writing and collaborative artistic work.
Publications include the monograph Closer: Performance, Technologies, Phenomenology (MIT Press 2007), and many shorter
articles on performance and phenomenology. Recent artistic work includes the Mixed Reality choreographic installation CATALYSTS
– Somatic Resonance with Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir, Jeannette Ginslov, Keith Lim. She is currently working on a book
called Phenomenologies of Affect.
Susan Kozel has worked for many years at a precarious balancing point between between dance, philosophy and responsive
digital technologies. She is a Professor at Malmö University's School of Art and Communication in Sweden. With an international
profile as a contemporary phenomenologist, she applies philosophical thought to a range of embodied practices in digital cultures.
Her research takes the form of both scholarly writing and collaborative artistic work. Publications include the monograph
Closer: Performance, Technologies, Phenomenology (MIT Press 2007), and many shorter articles on performance and phenomenology.
Recent artistic work includes the Mixed Reality choreographic installation CATALYSTS – Somatic Resonance with Margrét
Sara Guðjónsdóttir, Jeannette Ginslov, Keith Lim. She is currently working on a book called Phenomenologies of Affect.
