Materielle Welten – Der virtuelle Salon am IMAREAL
Material Worlds – The Virtual Salon at IMAREAL

Mittwoch, 10. April 2024 | 17:00 Uhr (Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit)
Wednesday, 10th of April 2024 | 17:00 (Central European Summertime)

 

Cybernetic Sensory Interactions: Somatic perception and feedback systems in early modern cultural audiences

Aska Mayer, CONVERGENCE of Humans and Machines. Tampere University, Finland

The religious performance and theater of Renaissance and Baroque are constituted by their emphasis on spectacular elements, visceral features, and intense stagings. Still, rarely the direct and embodied influence of those aspects on the contemporary audience are discussed, abstracting the individual experience.

In this presentation, Aska Mayer will introduce the interdisciplinary framework of somatic perception and feedback to the analysis of early modern European theater and performance, with an emphasis on the role of costumes and effects. Applying somaesthetic methodology as well as recent theories on costumes as a form of somatic augmentation, we will explore how contemporary research on the human body and its cybernetic enhancement can inform and extend research on historical phenomena.

Vortragssprache / Language: English

Aska Mayer (M.A.) is a Doctoral Researcher within the research group CONVERGENCE of Humans and Machines (Tampere University), as well as an Affiliated Doctoral Researcher at the Finnish Center of Excellence in Game Culture Studies, researching the role of playfulness in human augmentation, combining HCI, Game Studies, and Somaesthetics.

Additional areas of research include idea-historical approaches to digital games, philosophy of the neo-baroque, and apocalyptic media culture.

The lecture will take place online via Teams. Please use the registration form below. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us via sekretariat.imareal@plus.ac.at.

Read more about the lecture series in this blog post (English version).