http://www.dance-tech.net Interview with dance/media artist, philosopher and author Susan Kozel during a visit to NYC. She talked about her phenomenological approach to research and projects intersecting embodied explorations of movement and technological systems. She also talks about her book CLOSER: performance, technologies, philosophy.
BIO:
Susan Kozel works across dance and philosophy in the context of digital technologies. Working in England, Europe, Scandinavia, and Canada, she collaborates with digital artists, software engineers, architects, and composers to create performances and installations. She is the director of Mesh Performance Practices http://www.meshperformance.org and is Principal Researcher with the SMARTlab Digital Media Institute at the University of East London (UK).

She has a PhD in Continental philosophy specializing in Merleau-Pontys phenomenological writing and is the author of Closer: performance, technologies, philosophy (2007) published by The MIT Press. Current projects include Intuition in Creative Processes with the University of Art and Design in Helsinki (for which she is a Senior Researcher); the Designing Difference initiative which applies methodologies from performance and philosophy to the design of expressive mobile platforms for bodies of mixed abilities, and The hidden redness of eggs (working title) a collaborative site specific performance for the Ukrainian Institute in New York. This is the third in a series of performances exploring Technologies of Inner Spaces (previous performances in this series include immanence 2005 and other stories 2007) She is working on a new book called Social Choreographies: Corporeal Narratives with Mobile Media. Susan Kozel's page in dance-tech.net http://www.dance-tech.net/profile/susankozel

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