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Become a Somatechnics Research Associate
We invite all researchers, academics, artists and community members interested in somatechnics research to become a Research Associate of the centre.
"Somatechnics" is a newly coined term used to highlight the inextricability of soma and techne, of the body (as a culturally intelligible construct) and the techniques (dispositifs and 'hard technologies') in and through which bodies are formed and transformed. This term, then, supplants the logic of the 'and', indicating that technologies are not something we add to or apply to the body, but rather, are the means in and through which bodies are constituted, positioned, and lived. As such, the term reflects contemporary understandings of the body as the incarnation or materialization of historically and culturally specific discourses and practices.
The Somatechnics Research Centre meets a need in contemporary inter-disciplinary research on embodiment by helping bridge the divide between the sciences, arts, and humanities through the development, articulation, and dissemination of critically informed notions of bodily formation and transformation. The work carried out under the auspices of the Centre maps the lived realities, remembered histories, and inhabited geographies that connect and separate differently situated knowledges, and develops new protocols and procedures for soliciting meaningful involvement in its work, including the development of ethical, non-hierarchical ways of relating across bodily difference.
The Centre aims to develop and communicate research about issues concerning embodiment and its relationship to the ways in which we perceive and understand ourselves as individuals. The Centre ensures that this research is made available to practitioners in a range of disciplines and work contexts, including: the visual and peforming arts, medicine, law, and science and technology.