Phaedra Shanbaum

Phaedra is an assistant professor in the media studies department at Maynooth University. Her research is interdisciplinary, drawing on media and cultural criticism and theory, art history and computer science (HCI).  She links theory and criticism around these topics to contemporary digital media arts practices – specifically interactive and immersive environments and digital performance art -- exploring questions around the ever-changing relationship between the body and technology.  In doing so, she asks questions around what a body is and what it could potentially become when rethought, in productive ways, through and with technology.  She is the author of two books on this topic: Interfaces and Interactive New Media Installations (Routledge, 2019) and Aesthetics, Gender and Disability in New Media Art (Routledge, 2024).