From 2021 to 2023 I was a research assistant for the project DIGI-Sense at the Johannes Kepler University, Linz.
The project focuses on sensemaking in digitalization processes, especially in the interaction with digital twins and robotics. Artistic engagement – with a specific focus on dance and performance – is central to the research method to gain insights into the embodiment and relevance of aesthetic/sensory knowledge in sensemaking processes. Thereby the team aims at advancing understanding of the mechanisms underlying artful articulation and sensemaking in digital transformation projects by examining the socio-technical design and development process through the lens of digital twins (DT). Moreover, a special focus will be on researching aesthetics, aesthetic experiences and embodied knowledge in relation to sensemaking processes.
This project is a Seed Project at the Linz Institute of Technology, which is realized at the Institute of Communications Engineering, part of the Linz Business School at the Johannes Kepler University Linz.
Publications:
Brill, Daniela, Schnugg, Claudia, and Stary, Christian (2024) “The socio-aesthetic construction of meaning in digitally mediated environments: a digital sensemaking approach“ AI & Society https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-023-01842-7 (Link)
Brill, D., Schnugg, C., Stary, C., Rayzhekov, A. (2023): „Researching the body and movement through artistic performative installations for collaborative digital sensemaking“, In Proceedings of the XX. Conference on Culture and Computer Science, Lisbon, doi.org/10.1145/3623462.3624629.
Schnugg, C., Brill, D., and Stary, C. (2023) „Towards Sensemaking in the Meshwork of Technology, Ecology and Society: Symbiosis of Aesthetics, Performance and Digitalization“, Proceedings of International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA), Paris 2023, DOI 10.69564/ISEA2023-84-full-Schnugg-et-al-Meshwork-of-Technology web link.
Brill, D., Schnugg, C., and Stary, C. (2022) “Makes Digital Sensemaking Sense? – A Roadmap for Digital Humanism in Increasingly Transhumanist Settings”, New Explorations, Vol. 2(3): 86-109. Link (open access).
Brill, D., Schnugg, C., Stary, C. (2022) „Digital Sensemaking: Sensemaking as a Driver of Transformation“, Proceedings IFKAD’22 – Int. Forum on Knowledge Asset Dynamics, 20-22 June 2022, Lugano, Switzerland, pp. 652-672. Link. This paper was awarded the MBE Best Paper Award at IFKAD 2022
Talks, Lectures, Academic Presentations
Brill, D., Schnugg, C. (2023): „Performing bodies as Change Poets – Liminality of performance practices in interdisciplinary research“, Taboo Transgression Transcendence Art in Science Conference, Malta, Valletta, 28 September 2023.
Brill, D., Schnugg, C., Stary, C., Rayzhekov, A. (2023): „Researching the body and movement through artistic performative installations for collaborative digital sensemaking“, XX. Conference on Culture and Computer Science, Lisbon, 28 September 2023.
Schnugg, C., Brill, D. (2023): „DIGI-Sense – how the body understands, feels and goes through processes of sensemaking with digital tools“, talk at NOVA Festival, Bucharest, 23 September 2023.
Brill, D. (2023): „Outcomes of the experiments in phase 2: Drawing Exercises“, Research Talk, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, 28 June 2023.
Schnugg, C., Brill, D., Stary, C. (2023): Towards Sensemaking in the Meshwork of Technology, Ecology and Society: Symbiosis of Aesthetics, Performance, and Digitalization, ISEA, Paris, 17 May 2023, watch here.
Brill, D., Stary, C. (2023): „DIGI-Sense & Organisational Learning 4.0“, Research Talk, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, 23 March 2023.
Brill, D., Schnugg, C. (2022): „DIGI-Sense: Insights research phase 1 and strategy phase 2 work with performance artists“, Research Talk, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, 1st December 2022.
Schnugg, C. (2022): „Digital Sensemaking: The Body and Digital Transformation“, LIT Lecture, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria, hybrid event, 16th November 2022.
Brill, D., Schnugg, C. (2022): „Digital Sensemaking – an artscience exploration of performance into the aesthetics and embodiment of sensemaking in digitization and business informatics“ presentation at FEMeeting, Évora, Portugal, 15th September 2022.
Brill, D., Schnugg, C., Stary, C. (2022): „Digital Sensemaking: Sensemaking as a Driver of Transformation.“ presentation at IFKAD, Lugano, Switzerland, 21st June 2022.
Brill, D. (2022): Charla proyecto DIGI-Sense, suratómica, Bogotá, Kolumbien, on-site talk, 4th April 2022. For more details visit suratómica.
Schnugg, C. (2022): Presentation of art-science collaborations by the example of the DIGI-SENSE project. subnet, 16th March 2022, Salzburg. Organizer: subnet.at
Schnugg, C. (2022): Lecture for the Xperimenter programme at Science Gallery Bengaluru, Introduction to Art-Science Collaboration and selected projects relating to „Psyche“: DIGI-Sense, Art the IES and Sparks, online, 28th February 2022.
Brill, D., Schnugg, C., Stary, C. (2022): Research Talk: Introduction to the DIGI-SENSE Project: Digital Sensemaking: Constructive Capacity Building for Co-Creative Transformative Change. Johannes Kepler University, Linz, 17th February 2022, online. For more details and registration please visit JKU page.
Other Presentations
„Proyecto DIGI-Sense: Cómo el cuerpo entiende, percibe y le da sentido a procesos digitales“, suratomica Festival, Bogotá, Colombia, 8 November 2023.
„DIGI-Sense: How the body understands, feels, and goes through processes of sensemaking with digital tools“, together with Daniela Brill, talk at NOVA Festival, Bucharest, Romania, 23 September 2023.
„Drawing Exercises“ experiment and exhibition at NOVA Festival, Bucharest, 17-30 September 2023, Link to the Festival.
„Synch with Change“ and presentation of the DIGI-Sense project as „DIGI-Sense: an exploration of the body in digital sensemaking processes“ at Zirkus des Wissens, JKU, Linz, 6 September 2023. (Event invitation)
„The Distance Between Us Is Music“ installation at „Intersecting Realities“ exhibition in the framework of Cultural Capital Timisoara 2023, Timisoara 15 June – 2 July 2023.
„Drawing Exercises“ video and documentation at „Intersecting Realities“ exhibition in the framework of Cultural Capital Timisoara 2023, Timisoara 15 June – 2 July 2023.
„Mimicry“ DIGI-Sense Phase 1 Performace, Laura Stoll, Marko Markovic, Daniela Brill Estrada, in the framework of the Autopoietic Encounters exhibition at Improper Walls Gallery, Vienna, 20 April 2023.
DIGI-Sense Phase 2 „Drawing Exercises“ at Steinbeis Spring School at the Institute of Business Informatics – Communications Engineering, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, 15 February 2023.
DIGI-Sense at LABOR.A Digital 2022, Markt der Ideen, by Hans Böckler Stiftung, online since September 2022
Brill, D. (2022): DIGI-Sense presentation and workshop at Cultivamos Cultura Summer School, Sao Luis, Portugal, July 2022
DIGI-Sense at Lange Nacht der Forschung, Guerilla Performances on the Campus of Johannes Kepler University, Linz, 20th May 2022
DIGI-Sense at Salz21, New Business Tage Zukunft am Fluss, Salzburg, 11th May 2022
DIGI-Sense Phase 1 artist-in-residence open artistic process with artists Laura Stoll and Marko Markovic and researcher Daniela Brill at Huggy Bears Performance Space, Vienna, 25 April – 1 May 2022
