Prof. Dr. Rebecca Fiebrink
Rebecca Fiebrink is a Professor of Creative Computing at the UAL Creative Computing Institute. Together with her students and research assistants, she works on a variety of projects developing new technologies to enable new forms of human expression, creativity, and embodied interaction. Much of her current research combines techniques from human-computer interaction, machine learning, and signal processing to allow people to apply machine learning more effectively to new problems, such as the design of new digital musical instruments and gestural interfaces for gaming and accessibility. She is also involved in projects developing rich interactive technologies for digital humanities scholarship, exploring ways that machine learning can be used and appropriated to reveal and challenge patterns of bias and inequality, and advancing machine learning education.
Prof. Dr. Susan Kozel
Susan Kozel works at the point of convergence between dance, philosophy, and responsive digital technologies. She is a Professor at the School of Arts and Communication of Malmö University in Sweden. Her research takes the form of both philosophical writing and artistic research. Her current research focuses on phenomenology, affect, somatics, and the use of mixed reality (AR/MR) technologies for the development of Somatic Archiving (https://www.somaticarchiving.
She is a member of the Swedish Research Council’s Committee for Artistic Research (Kommittén för konstnärlig forskning) and co-directs Malmö University’s Arts-based Research group. She is on the advisory board of the Asimuth Journal of Contemporary Philosophy, the Asian International Journal of Dance, and Brill’s Book Series on Aesthetic Practices. She was a Visiting Professor at the University of Florence (2023 and 2024) and is on the Scientific Committee of the Italian Inter-university Center for Phenomenological Research.
Her artistic research takes the form of collaborations with artists such as Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir, Gibson / Martelli, Jeannette Ginslov. She worked with the Cullberg contemporary dance company in Stockholm to develop bodily transmission techniques for the performance of dancers’ bodily memories. She is currently working on two books, Augmenting Archives and Mediating Memories (co-authored with Maria Engberg for Routledge), and a monograph on phenomenology and affect called Shimmer. With a strong critical stance on the impact of technologies on bodies of all kinds, she develops philosophical and creative practices for enhanced bodily agency and flourishing technological engagements.
Prof. Dr. Chris Salter
Chris Salter is Professor for Immersive Arts and Director of the Immersive Arts Space at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). He is also Professor Emeritus, Design and Computation Arts at Concordia University in Montreal and former Co-Director of the Hexagram network for research-creation in arts, cultures and technology and Co-Founder of the Milieux Institute at Concordia. He studied philosophy and economics and completed his PhD in theatre studies with research in computer music Stanford University. His artistic work has been seen all over the world at such venues as the Venice Architecture Biennale, Barbican Centre, Berliner Festspiele, Wiener Festwochen, HeK, ZKM, Kunstfest Weimar, Musée d’art Contemporain, Muffathalle, EXIT Festival and Grand Palais Immersif-Paris, among many others. He is the author of Entangled: Technology and the Transformation of Performance ( 2010), Alien Agency: Experimental Encounters with Art in the Making (2015) and Sensing Machines (2022), all from MIT Press.
