doctoral thesis

'Sonified Freaks and Sounding Prostheses: sonic body representation in performance art'

Submission date: November 2011. A summary of my project can be found on my University of Sussex staff profile.


edited volume

Daniël Ploeger, Nicholas Sagan (eds.), Post-Human // Future-Tense (Chicago IL: PH//FT Press / Proform Technologies, 2010) [ISBN 978-0-557-90584-3]


book chapter

'Being Human as Evolving Memory: art and posthumanism in the present tense' in D. Ploeger, N. Sagan (eds.), Post-Human // Future Tense (Chicago IL: PH//FT Press / Proform Technologies, 2010)


peer-reviewed journal articles

'Sonic Prosthetics: exploring posthuman personal space in digital performance', International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, Vol. 7, No. 2 (forthcoming, 2011)

'Sounds like Superman? On the Representation of Bodies in Biosignal Performance', Interference: A Journal of Audio Culture, Vol. 1, No. 1 (2011) [ISSN 2009-3578]

'Digital Parts / Modular Doubles: challenging the "digital double" ', Body, Space and Technology Journal, Vol. 10, No. 1 (2011) [ISSN 1470-9120]

'FEAR, IMPOTENCE and REMOTE MASTURBATION: Repression of Male Sexuality in Stelarc's Rhetoric and Performance Practice', Media-N Journal of the New Media Caucus, Vol. 6, No. 2 (2010) [ISSN 1942-017X]

'Heightened Awareness through Simulated Movement in Multimedia Performance', Body, Space and Technology Journal, Vol. 9, No. 1 (2010) [ISSN 1470-9120]


reports of funded research projects

'Sensor Suit / Speaker Suit: heightening body - technology interaction with a sonic prosthesis', European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST), Action Sonic Interaction Design (SID), Short Term Scientific Mission Posters, 2009

‘Simulating Loudspeaker Movement in the Median Plane’, COST SID Short Term Scientific Mission Posters, 2008



conference papers

'Representation Beyond the Techno-Normative: a critical approach to hard- and software design in digital performance with biosensors', Symposium Who Do We Think We Are? Representing the Human, Royal Holloway, University of London, March 2011

'Digital Parts / Modular Doubles: 'human' body parts and their doubles in digital performance', annual conference of the Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA), University of Glamorgan, Cardiff, September 2010

'Aural Flesh: sonified biosignals as sensual sound technology', Digital Resources for the Humanities and the Arts (DRHA) 2010, Brunel University, West London, September 2010

'Sonic Intimacy: exploring posthuman personal space in biosignal performance', (re)Performing the Posthuman - a conference on performance arts and posthumanism, University of Sussex, May 2010

'Sonic Prosthetics and Spatial Sounds', annual conference of the Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA), University of Plymouth, September 2009

'Sonic Prosthetics, Mediation and Performance', Theatre Noise conference, Central School of Speech and Drama, London, April 2009

'Awareness in Motion: heightened awareness through simulated movement in a multimedia environment', International Media Laboratory, St. Petersburg, August 2008

'Using Moving Sound Sources as Compositional Material in Multimedia Performance', Annual Graduate Exchange Conference, University of Oxford, June 2008

'Objects and Sound: on the use of sounding objects in multimedia art', Engaging Objects Conference, Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam, March 2008


invited talk

'Myths of Difference: technological change and posthuman realities', Columbia College Chicago, December 2010


academic event

(re)Performing the Posthuman - a conference on performance arts and posthumanism

University of Sussex, 21-22 May 2010

organized by Seda Ilter and Daniël Ploeger