Susan Kozel
Susan Kozel is a Professor in the School of Arts and Culture at Malmö University, Sweden. With an international profile as a contemporary phenomenologist, she applies philosophical thought to a range of embodied practices in the context of digital media technologies. Her research takes the form of both scholarly writing and performance practices. Current research foci are affect, re-enactments and somatic archiving. Her first sole-authored book, Closer: Performance, Technologies, Phenomenology (MIT Press 2007) is soon to be followed by Affective Choreographies.
Contact: susan.kozel@mau.se
Keith Lim
For over 15 years Keith has dedicated his arts career to interactive art. Driven to connect live art with emerging technologies and somatic experience, he creates interactive installations, physical and immersive theatre, and, recently, Augmented Reality apps. He is an interdisciplinary jack of all trades. Full stack experience maker. director, producer, production manager, lighting, video, technician, performer, thinker, teacher, doer. Master of dance, BA in Computer Science/Psychology.
Contact: keiththesedays@gmail.com
Jeannette Ginslov
Dr Jeannette Ginslov (PhD, MSc, MA) is an artist, researcher and published scholar whose practice as research examines embodiment in relation to Somatic Dance, Screendance and embodied technologies. She also facilitates online Screendance workshops internationally and since 2011 has collaborated with Kozel on several AR/MR installations. In 2021 she was awarded a PhD from London South Bank University. Her current research focuses on embodied materiality, computational Screendance and visual aesthetics. In January 2022 she joined the School of Arts and Communication, Malmö University, Sweden, as an MCS Master's Thesis Supervisor.
Contact: jeannette.ginslov@gmail.com
Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir
Icelandic choreographer Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir has created and toured internationally her performance work since 2010. She lives and works in Berlin and started her on going collaboration on Somatic Archiving with philosophy Professor Susan Kozel, Malmö University, in 2017. Displaying the politics of intimacy is a core theme within her choreographic work while working with and exploring pathologies of the social political body within our own bodies. In 2010 her work started taking shape from her on going in-depth research into a methodology that accesses physiological and emotional sub-worlds. She has developed a new genre of performative body language, and an original working method that directly informs her creative outcomes.
Contact: msgudjonsdottirinfo@gmail.com