Ulrik Ekman

Ulrik Ekman is Associate Professor at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen. Ekman’s main research interests are in the fields of cybernetics and ICT, the network society, new media art, critical design and aesthetics, as well as recent cultural theory. He was the head of the Nordic research network “The Culture of Ubiquitous Information” with more than 150 participating researchers. Ekman’s publications include the editing of Throughout: Art and Culture Emerging with Ubiquitous Computing (MIT Press, 2013), the co-editing of the special issue "Ubiquitous Digitalization of Urban Life and Auditory Culture" in Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies  (Fall 2013), the editing of the special issue “Interaction Designs for Ubiquity” of the Fibreculture journal (2011), the co-editing of the special issue "Mobile Ubiquity in Public and Private Spaces" in the Digital Creativity journal (Fall 2011). the editing of the special issue “The Body: Beyond Posthumanity” of the Turbulens journal (2008), the co-editing with Frederik Tygstrup of Witness: Memory, Representation, and the Media in Question (Museum Tusculanum Press, 2008), and individual research articles and chapters such as  “Irreducible Vagueness: Augmented Worldmaking in Diller & Scofidio’s Blur Building.” Post Modern Culture  19.2;  “Of Transductive Speed – Stiegler.” Parallax 13.4.; and “Of the Untouchability of Embodiment: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer” C-Theory (2012).