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Mark Paterson

University of Pittsburgh

Mark Paterson is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. He has an interest in the history and science of bodily sensation, blindness, and technologies of the senses. Along with articles published in humanities and social science journals, he is author of books including The Senses of Touch: Haptics, Affects and Technologies (2007), Seeing with the Hands: Blindness, Vision and Touch After Descartes (2016), and co-editor of Touching Place, Spacing Touch (2012). How We Became Sensorimotor: Movement, Measurement, Sensation is forthcoming with University of Minnesota Press (Autumn 2021). His current research is concerned with the role of embodiment in the histories of human-robot interactions.

Sessions in which Mark Paterson attends

Thursday 4 May, 2023

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
16:30
16:30 - 18:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes

Artist creators: Kelly Keenan, Elise Vanderborght and Jacinte ArmstrongWhere: MB 7.255In this 1-hour session, Kelly Keenan and Elise Vanderborght, will offer a sampling of The Direction of Ease, a performance project at the intersection of touch therapy modalities, dance and performance. As a means to narrow the ga...