VR unknown embodiment
About
I create and consult through conceptual and artistic reflection. Collaborations often blur systemic analysis and experimental experience: sensor-based art, philosophy of perception in VR. My work keeps circling perception and sense-making, media systems and cultural theory — with a soft spot for artistic research and the politics of aesthetics.
In my scholarly work, I sit at the intersection of phenomenological research and digital art — where philosophy needs friction with aesthetic material to test its claims. My dissertation was completed at the RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion at the University of Oslo, with a phenomenological study of the unknown in a virtual reality artwork.
“We usually think we cope with new situations by thinking and planning. That, however, is not the whole truth.” — UiO Research News, 2026
Education
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PhD — Towards a Phenomenology of Novelty: Perceiving and Engaging with Virtual Reality
Defended 13 February 2026. Dissertation · Recordings.
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M.A. European Media Studies
Moving Gestalt. About the phenomenological possibilities of comics.
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B.A. Philosophy, Arts and Media
Synesthesia and intersensory perception following Merleau-Ponty’s sensorium commune.
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Dual B.A. Literary & Cultural Studies, Philosophy
Artistic Research
Media
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Sensing Contexts — An audio walk through Nasjonalmuseet
With Dr. Remy Martin (RITMO), I created an audio walk through Norway’s National Museum — how sound helps us make sense of place, emotion, and perception. The Music Talkshow, Radio Nova, September 2023 (~57 min).
Photo: Frode Larsen / Nasjonalmuseet / UiO
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Virtuell Virtuos #10 — Künstliche Intelligenz in der VR-Kunst
I spoke with Tina Sauerländer and Tanja Lepczynski on AI in VR art, algorithms, and programming Aporia with Patricia Detmering. DKB podcast, 9 March 2021.
Publications
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2027 · Forthcoming · Book
The Spiral of Self-Enabling Action: A Phenomenology of Sense and Contexts in an Aesthetic Virtual Reality
transcript Verlag · January 2027.
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2026 · Dissertation
Towards a Phenomenology of Novelty: Perceiving and Engaging with Virtual Reality
University of Oslo, RITMO. Defended 13 February 2026.
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2026 · Press
Where Humans Outshine AI
“When we face novelty, we need opportunities for bodily exploration, not just information. We need to actively explore how the new thing relates to us.”
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2026 · Forskning.no
Her trumfer mennesket KI
Norwegian coverage of my doctoral research on human perception, novelty, and embodied cognition in comparison with AI.
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2012 · Book chapter
Warum man mit Flow alleine nicht die Welt rettet. Gamification und Problemräume.
In flow aus spielen: Optimale Erfahrungen durch Computerspiele (DE).
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2012 · Book chapter
End Pilot Festival
My chapter in Phase 0 — How to make some action (Fruehwerk Verlag, 2012) — stories about starting, failing, restarting and improving creative projects.
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2015 · Essay
Du siehst das tote Kind nicht. Du siehst ein Bild eines toten Kindes.
My essay on image politics, media ethics, and the Alan Kurdî photograph. Zebrabutter.
Teaching & Talks
Lectures
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Novelty and creativity in aesthetic experiences
University of Oslo (designated topic before public defence).
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Presentation recording
University of Oslo (RITMO, IMV) · 13 February 2026.
Conferences
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The affective cycle of orientation in unfamiliar contexts within an aesthetic Virtual Reality environment
Nordic Society for Aesthetics, June 2023.
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Action cycles before ‘affordances’ in unfamiliar contexts within a playful Virtual Reality environment
Nordic Exploratory Workshop — Action in Games, May 2023.
Contact
I’m based in Germany · Available in Scandinavia & Europe
For commissions and project work, see the Freelance page.