aisthēsis: Feeling Through the Skin of My Eyes

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  • Naomi P. Bennett Louisiana State University

Author Biography

Naomi P. Bennett, Louisiana State University

Naomi P. Bennett is a performance scholar, movement artist, projection designer. She earned her PhD in Communication Studies and Performance Studies with a minor in Women and Gender Studies from Louisiana State University, an MFA in Television, Film, and Theatre Production from California State University, Los Angeles, and a BA in Theater from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her current research and artistic practice is in the creation of interactive performance that physically engages the audience via technology. Through this entanglement of physical and virtual, Bennett’s work seeks to engage senses of touch, sight, and proprioception through traditionally disembodied mediums.

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2020-07-01

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Vol. 3 No. 2 (2020): Openings

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