Dr. Zeynep Akbal
Zeynep Akbal works as a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Experimental Surgery at the Department of Surgery, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin.
She studied communication sciences, media sciences and media philosophy, and worked on developing her interdisciplinary method. She did her doctorate in philosophy at Universität Potsdam. Her dissertation is recently published as a monograph, titled »Lived-Body Experiences in Virtual Reality. A Phenomenology of the Virtual Body«.
Her research focuses on the intersection of philosophy of perception, cognitive sciences and virtual reality (VR). In her recent post-doc project (»Tactile Stimulation in VR« at Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences), she focused on the behavioral consequences of haptic feedback in a VR task.
Campus Virchow-Klinikum
Augustenburger Platz 1
13353 Berlin
Monographs & Books
Akbal, Zeynep. 2023. Lived-Body Experiences in Virtual Reality: A Phenomenology of the Virtual Body. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag.
Articles in Edited Volumes
Stertz, L., Achatz, R., Akba, Z. 2015. »LEBEN IM PROZESS - Zwischen Performativität und Performance.« In Metabasis - Transkriptionen zwischen Literaturen, Künsten und MedienKraft der Alterität, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 35-50.
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839423554-002
Events & Workshops
Nestler, A., Ott, C., Wegener, F. (organizers), with contributions by Akbal, Z., Almpani-Lekka, D., Beyer, B., Dierichs, K., Eder, M., Farmer, J., Fekonja, L., Krauthauen, K., Miodragović, N., Queisner, M., Rodrigues, L., Singer, N., Stein, C, Winkler, C. Open Space – Active Matter on Stage. Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«, Berlin. Cluster of Excellence Matters of Activity, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. 8 November 2023 - 9 November 2023.
https://www.matters-of-activity.de/en/activities/11681/open-space-active-matter-on-stage