Maaike Bleeker
Dep. Media- en Cultuurwetenschappen - Media en Performance S
Utrecht University
Netherlands
Biography
Maaike Bleeker is professor in Theatre Studies in the Department of Media & Culture Studies. She studied Art History, Philosophy and Theatre Studies, and received her PhD from the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam. In her work she combines approaches from the arts and performance with insights from philosophy, media theory and cognitive science. Much of her research focuses on processes of embodied and technologically mediated perception and transmission, with a special interest in the relationship between technology, movement and embodied perception and cognition. Current research subjects include social robotics, spectacular astronomy and the intersection of performance studies and space studies, posthuman performativity, corporeal literacy, digital archiving of artistic work, and artistic creation processes.
Research Interest
Media, Art and Performance Studies (RMA)
Publications
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Bleeker, Maaike & van der Tuin, Iris (2014). Science in the Performance Stratum - Hunting for Higgs and Nature as Performance. International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, 10 (2), (pp. 232-45) (14 p.).
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Bleeker, M.A., Nedelkopoulou, Eirini & Foley Sherman, Jon (2015). Performance and Phenomenology - Traditions and Transformations. (254 p.). New York and London: Routledge.
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Bleeker, M.A. (2016). Transmission in Motion - The Technologizing of Dance. (244 p.). London and New York: Routledge.
