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.
