Maaike Bleeker

Maaike Bleeker is a theatre studies professor, a dramaturg, and a translator. Her work combines approaches from the arts and performance studies with insights from philosophy, media theory, and cognitive science. Much of her research focuses on processes of embodied and technologically mediated perception and transmission, with a special interest in the relationship between technology, movement, and embodied perception and cognition. Current research subjects include social robotics, spectacular astronomy and the intersection of performance studies and space studies, posthuman performativity, corporeal literacy, digital archiving of artistic work, and artistic creation processes.