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amayer.bsky.social
@amayer.bsky.social
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Science and Technology Studies // Game Culture Studies // Human-Technology-Interaction // Neo-Baroque Media

Researching DIY Technology Practices and Intersections of Technology Development and Game Cultures @ Tampere University & CoE GameCult
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Speaking next week at @imc-leeds.bsky.social about somatic activation as a concept for ideahistorical understandings of medieval arts and medievalist digital games, alongside some fantastic colleagues of IMAREAL Salzburg!
If you are around, come by and share your favourite bloody medieval artworks!
July 4, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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Do you attend or organize events which are focused on (shared) bodily transformative experiences?

Are you interested in supporting community-based research?

Then please take part in our survey:
forms.cloud.microsoft/e/CYYDjpnYn5
An Image featuring a rectangle outlined in black. In the upper right corner, distorted writing spells "Expectation". The text below reads: Do you attend or organize events which are focused on (shared) bodily transformative experiences? (e.g., events on bodywork, bodymodification, kink practices, embodied self-expression, physical and emotional intimacy, meditative practices...) Are you interested in supporting community-based research? Then please take part in our survey: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/CYYDjpnYn5 In the bottom right corner, there is a QR code.
June 16, 2025 at 8:03 AM
amayer.bsky.social
And will have the chance to talk about my current field of research (somaesthetics) and its potential use for understanding and studying the effect of medieval materialities, alongside the amazing team of IMAREAL Salzburg!
May 21, 2025 at 3:11 PM
amayer.bsky.social
Happy to share that my paper "Playful Somaesthetic Technology Practices" is now out in "The Journal of Somaesthetics"! I looked at playful cases of somaesthetically transformative technology practices across Arts, Alternative Game Design, and Prosthetics:
journals.aau.dk/index.php/JO...
The image shows a screenshot of a webpage, featuring the title " Playful Somaesthetic Technology Practices. Characteristics, Conditions, and Frameworks across Arts, Games, and Augmentation", author information and a DOI link, as well as an Abstract. The abstract reads: "This paper explores playful instances of somaesthetic technology practices. Based on a multiple case study strategy, a preliminary framework will be provided for playfulness in technology practices which are focused on somaesthetic experience, appreciation, and transformation. To illustrate the understanding of playful somaesthetic technology practices, three selected cases are introduced (Alternative Game Controllers, Medical Performance Art, Human Tail Augmentations), their playful features defined, and their conditions of practice analysed."
May 13, 2025 at 9:36 AM