[-empyre-] bio

[Ozgun Eylul Iscen]

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Ozgun Eylul Iscen 

Ozgun Eylul Iscen is a graduate student and a research assistant in the Transforming Pain Research Group at the School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University, Canada. She got her BA degree from Koc University, Istanbul with a dual major in Psychology and Sociology. 

Her interest in new media theory and practice is situated at the intersections of art, science, philosophy, and micropolitics. Her recent work focuses on how we develop media art practices to enable the individuals in transcultural contexts to access, express, and transform their embodied experience and memory in performative and relational ways. Recently, she has been working on projects that can be gathered around the inspiration with one's embodied experience of the place with a sensory repertoire of another place and time, by drawing upon soundscape studies, embodied memory and sensory ethnography. 

Currently, she is focusing on embodied cognition in relation to new media, art and design; parallel to the ongoing research at the Transforming Pain Research Group that is based on how to express, communicate or transform pain experience through innovative technologies at the intersections of science, technology and art.