'Digital (dis)embodiment in human practices'
\nMarch 26-27\, 2026
\nMary Immaculate College Limerick\, Ireland \;
\nIn this workshop\, our curiosity is drawn to how human embodiment takes shape in respect of digital worlds and through digital art practices\; we have a particular interest in philosophical and phenomenological perspectives on how lived bodies are represented\, reconfigured\, and re-enacted in both problematic and promising manners through digital media. We aim to advance a burgeoning\, interdisciplinary discussion about the challenges and innovative possibilities of 're-locating' human embodied experience and practices within the digital domain\, and to arrive at a robust understanding of just what such a relocation supposes and entails - if there is indeed anything such as 'digital embodiment' at all. To those ends\, we are seeking dialogue between practicing artists and philosophers from different tradtions and with different interests.
\nLocation: Mary Immaculate College\, John Henry Newman Building\, room JHN221 \;
\nProgramme:
\nMarch 26
\n9:30 - 10:15 &ldquo\;The Landscape is Where We find Ourselves: Embodiment and The Digital Landscape&rdquo\;- Micheal Butler and Michael Conlan (University of North Dakota\, Grands Forks)
\n10:15 - 11:00 "Biomimicry in Digital Embodiment: Toward a Generative Concept of Virtual Bodies" - Donald Beith (University of Maine)
\n11:15 - 12:00 &ldquo\;Seeing what to do: affective responses\, social norms\, and action in the digital world&rdquo\; - Leda Berio (University College Dublin)
\n12:00 - 12:45 &ldquo\;Arguing with echoes. The unsettling tensions of digitally enacted linguistic bodies&rdquo\; - Marek McGann (Mary Immaculate College)
\n14:00 \;- 14:45 &ldquo\;Digital Malfunctions: Subversive Play in Deleuze&rsquo\;s Philosophy of Thinking&rdquo\; - Corry Shores (Middle Eastern Technical University)
\n14:45 - 15:30 &ldquo\;Silence screaming or Scream silencing: Examining &lsquo\;technomythology&rsquo\; via mythological and posthuman voices&rsquo\; ambiguities&rdquo\; - Katerina Maniou (University of Thessaly)
\n15:45 - 16:30 &ldquo\;Learning in Motion: The Future of STEAM Through Digital Embodiment&rdquo\; - Ayşegü\;l Liman Kaban and Kayla Rush (Mary Immaculate College)
\n16:30 - 17:15 "Artificial Intelligence and the Emergence of the Algorithmic Unconscious&rdquo\; - Luca Possati (University of Twente) \;
\nMarch 27
\n9:45 - 10:30 &ldquo\;DIS_EMBODIED: Experimental artistic research into post-bodily human existence&rdquo\; - Marleine van der Werf (independent visual artist\, Rotterdam\, the Netherlands)
\n10:45 - 11:30 &ldquo\;Empathy\, Reciprocity\, and Reversibility in BeAnotherLab&rsquo\;s &lsquo\;Machine to Be Another&rsquo\;&rdquo\; - Catherine Fullarton (University of King&rsquo\;s College)
\n11:30 - 12:15 "Digital Patchwork for a Quilting Tradition" - Brooke Rudow (University of Central Florida)
\n1:45 - 2:30 &ldquo\;Against Digital Embodiment As Such&rdquo\; - Robin Parmar (University of Limerick)
\n2:30 - 3:15 &ldquo\;Neither &lsquo\;dis&rsquo\; nor &lsquo\;em&rsquo\;: my body and another&rsquo\;s numbers&rdquo\; - Giuseppe Torre (University of Limerick) and Basil Vassilicos (Mary Immaculate College)
\n3:15 - 3:45 Closing remarks\, discussion \;
\nAll are welcome. This workshop is being organised in collaboration with the Digital Worlds Workshop (https://digitalworldsworkshop.com/)\, and is being generously supported by the Department of Philosophy (Mary Immaculate College)\, the Institute for Interdisciplinary and Engaged Philosophy (Mary Immaculate College)\, and the Digital Media &\; Art Research (University of Limerick).
\nFor queries\, please contact the organisers\, Basil Vassilicos and Giuseppe Torre.
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