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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.org).
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.
Publications
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2024 | Article in journal
Re-presencing telematic dreaming: awakening a critical feminist phenomenology
Susan Kozel
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2024 | Conference paper
Ten Permissions for Facilitating (Live) Design Activities
Kristina Höök, Kristina Andersen, Susan Kozel
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2022 | Article in journal
The Potential of Passivity Beyond the Intentional Model. Consciousness as Disarticulation in Merleau-Ponty’s Institution and Passivity
Federica Buongiorno, Susan Kozel
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2021 | Conference paper
Tracing Conceptions of the Body in HCI: From User to More-Than-Human
Sarah Homewood, Marika Hedemyr, Maja Fagerberg Ranten, Susan Kozel
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2020 | Chapter in book
Performing Phenomenology: the Work of Choreographer Margret Sara Gudjonsdottir
Susan Kozel
Research Projects
You can find previous research projects in the Diva database.
Activities
- Living Archives Research Project
- “The Archival Body” lecture, New Human Symposium
- Openness (A Living Archives Publication)
- “The Virtual Reality Hype” Medea Podcast 2016
- “Performing Encryption" Keynote Somatics Conf (UK)
- “Gravity and its Sisters" Keynote (2014)
- “Phenomenology in 5 Acts” lecture Stanford Uni
- "Affective and Rhythmic Engagement" lecture NODEM
- “Social Choreographies” Medea Talk