Duke-DKU Presence Lab
Presence Lab Description
The Duke-DKU Presence Lab draws from fields within media arts, digital media, and the humanities, in the context of theory, history, critical practice, and global conversations, to explore pressing topics at the intersection of computation, media, and culture. We are interested in the future of reality in a digitally hybrid world, and how embodied, engaged communities can thrive across space and time. The question we are raising is whether we can create a deeper sense of connection across locality through meaningful, sustained, and creative synchronous and asynchronous exchanges. In our initial cycle, the group will focus on questions of presence, virtuality, artificial intelligence, agency, and materiality.
Current Key Projects
- Instrumenting the Invisible: Performance in the Electromagnetic Field (Augustus Wendell and Ziv Ze’ev Cohen)
- Speculative Bodies and Chimeric Speciation (Mark Olson and Vivian Xu)
- Sound Art in Virtual Spaces (John Supko and Rui Hu).
Faculty Fellow: