Nicole de BrabandereNicole De Brabandere (PhD) is a Visiting Researcher at McGill University, working at the intersection of experimental media practice and theories of corporeality. Her current research develops material practices alongside artifacts of computer visionthat lend new insight into the generative animacies of A.I., including its affective and aesthetic effects. De Brabandere has hosted experimental media workshops across Europe and North America and has published numerous peer-reviewed journal articles on topics spanning drawing, choreography, habit, research-creation, material culture, critical theory, and artificial intelligence. De Brabandere's PhD thesis entitled "The Matter of Habit: Experimenting with the Affects of Emergent Media, Material and Movement Practices" (2017) was developed as part of the PhD cooperation between the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) and the University of Arts, Linz, and received the 'Award of Excellence' by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education. The work was also supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF). De Brabandere has also taught and designed courses bridging theoretical and practice-based techniques within the arts and interdisciplinary humanities at the undergraduate and master's levels in Europe and North America. De Brabandere is a collaborator member of Hexagram, an interdisciplinary network dedicated to research-creation in art, culture and technology, located in Tiohtià ke/Montreal, Canada, and a reviewer for the 'Journal for Artistic Research' and 'NECSUS European Journal of Media Studies'. Read More Read Less