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*** This email has been sent from the MEDIA ARTS AND DANCE email forum. To respond to all subscribers email [log in to unmask] *** i n v i t a t i o n t o a l l : : CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY AND DIGITAL PERFORMANCE Brunel University PERFORMANCE RESEARCH SEMINAR Autumn 2012 Series Wednesday, November 21, 2012 Gaskell Bldg 048 Drama Studio Cleveland Rd. Uxbridge, West London http://people.brunel.ac.uk/dap/boiler13.html 16:oo Nathalie Soelmark (Visiting Phd Researcher, University of Southern Denmark) “Biotechnological intervention in the body” This presentation will offer insight into how the reproductively challenged perform their experience with biotechnology on YouTube and includes the screening of 2 video clips from YouTube (7-10 minutes). In what follows I am highlighting how these performances on YouTube display active and critically engaged individuals, in contrast to commonly held assumptions about biotechnology and the media embedding the autonomous individual, in perceptions of the natural body not as an ideal but an appreciation of, and instance on a shared materiality. New reproduction technology may very well erode what we believe as a shared, common and general being in relation- human and human body- with its transparent biotechnological alterations of just that sensus communis. But I argue, that mediations on YouTube of experience with new reproduction technology and the biomedical perception of the body as object and subject as somatic themselves function as an individual expression of core concern with and emotional involvement in consequences of biotechnological intervention in the body e.g. dehumanization. Nathalie W. Soelmark is a Ph.D. fellow at the Institute of Literature, Media, and Cultural Studies, University of Southern Denmark. Her research project; Transformation of Kinship: Mediated experiences of body, technology and kinship is a cultural study of connections between contemporary perceptions of the body and media-, bio-, and reproduction technology with a special focus on the consequences of these connections for the concept of kinship. Nathalie W. Soelmark has a Master in Culture and Communication from Southern University of Denmark. Entry: Open to All All Research Seminars are co-produced with dance tech live TV and streamed online as well as archived. In collaboration with http://www.livestream.com/dancetechttvlive DAPLab.TV Please visit our website for further descriptions of the topics and the visiting artists. Prof. Johannes Birringer Director, Center for Contemporary and Digital Performance School of Arts Brunel University West London UB8 3PH UK +44 (0)1895 267 343 (office) http://people.brunel.ac.uk/dap/condip.html