On Wednesday, 10th of April (18:00 EET), CONVERGENCE’s Aska Mayer is giving a guest lecture on “Cybernetic Sensory Interactions: Somatic perception and feedback systems in early modern cultural audiences” at “Material Worlds”, a public virtual lecture series by the Institute For Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture (IMAREAL), Salzburg.
In this talk, Aska Mayer will introduce the interdisciplinary framework of somatic perception and feedback and combine it with observations on the role of the multisensory spectacle and costumes in early modern European theatre and performance. Applying somaesthetic methodology as well as recent theories on costumes as a form of somatic augmentation, this talk will present how the contemporary research on the human body and its cybernetic enhancement within Mayer’s doctoral research can be applied to surprising and seemingly distant historical phenomena, informing new approaches for the analysis of material culture and providing new perspectives for Digital Humanities.
The talk is organized by IMAREAL, Paris-Lodron-University Salzburg (Austria), and hosted by Peter Färberböck.
You can register at:
https://www.imareal.sbg.ac.at/materielle-welten-xi/
Image: Photo: Denis von Alsloot (1616), De Ommeganck in Brussel op 31 mei 1615. De triomf van aartshertogin Isabella. Oil on Canvas. Victoria and Albert Museum, London.