Denisa Kera (Singapore & Czech Republic) is Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore where she teaches courses on interactive media design and new media theory in the Communications and New Media Programme. She is also a member of the Science, Technology, Society research cluster and Asia Research Institute under which she studies topics in STS and philosophy of technology. Her current interest in the convergence of technologies brings her to the study of phenomena such as Asian and EU science cities built around the emergent nano- and biotechnologies, fusion of personal genomics services with web 2.0 platforms and different posthuman and transhuman scenarios that raise issues of biopolitics, biosociality and cosmopolitics. In terms of interactive media design she follows the mashup culture of open APIs and she is interested in the limits of design related to death, memorials, heritage and apocalypse. She is trying to use design as a research methodology and in her work with students both in Singapore and in Prague: http://urop2009.wordpress.com/ and http://liminalinteractions.wordpress.com/.
She has Ph.D. in Information Science from Charles University in Prague where she also completed her MA in Philosophy. Her Ph.D. thesis (New media theory as ontology of the computer code) examined issues of performativity in computer codes in relation to the history of science languages and current debates in new media theory. In 2007 and 2008 she was a Research Associate in the Center for Global studies, Academy of Sciences in Prague, where she was studying the posthuman aspects of society and globalisation in relation to theories of evolution. She has extensive experience as a curator of exhibitions related to art, technology and science, such as “WEB 2.0 generation” at the festival ENTER3 http://www.enter3.org, “Artists in Labs” and “TransGenesis: festival of biotechnology and art” in 2006 and 2007, the game art section at the Entermutimediale festival in 2005 and various events. She was an active art critic for Czech and Slovak media, among others Flash Art and Umelec. In the present she is fascinated by Indonesian contemporary and traditional art and suffers from incurable case of Japanophilia that borders with techno-orientalism.
National University of Singapore, Communications and New Media Programme
