The Duke-DKU Presence Lab draws from fields within media arts, digital media, and the humanities, in the context of theory, history, critical practice, and global conversations, to explore pressing topics at the intersection of computation, media, and culture. We are interested in the future of reality in a digitally hybrid world, and how embodied, engaged communities can thrive across space and time. The question we are raising is whether we can create a deeper sense of connection across locality through meaningful, sustained, and creative synchronous and asynchronous exchanges. In our initial cycle, the group will focus on questions of presence, virtuality, artificial intelligence, agency, and materiality. 

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Directors:

Benjamin Bacon (Duke Kunshan University)

Victoria Szabo (Duke University)

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Associate Directors:

Vivian Xu (Duke Kunshan University)

Mark Olson (Duke University)