Biography
Desiree Foerster studies new media arts and design from a process-relational and critical phenomenology perspective. She is currently based at the University of Chicago, where she is a Senior Research Associate in the Cinema and Media Studies department and the director of the Art, Science and Culture Initiative. Previously, Desiree was an Assistant Professor for Digital Media and Culture Studies at the Utrecht University. She did her PhD at the Institute for Arts and Media at the University of Potsdam with her thesis “Aesthetic Experience of Metabolic Processes” and she holds additional degrees in Media Culture Analysis from Duesseldorf (MA) and Comparative Literature and Philosophy (BA) from Bochum. She regularly collaborates with colleagues from the arts and science on projects of research-creation. Her research interests include: phenomenology of media, media ecologies, affect, process philosophy, sensory studies, and immersive technologies. See more on her website: https://dfoerster.org/
Recent Publications
Sensing a Heartbeat: A New Perspective on Self-Tracking Technologies through the Integration of Interoception. Body & Society: 2024
New phenomenologies of pain and the re-conceptualization of health in the digital arts. The Senses and Society: 2023
Teaching Experience
Winter Quarter 2025
CMST 27522 Experimental Futures
Spring Quarter 2025
CMST 27931 Re-imagining Health in Immersive Media Environments