Nicole De Brabandere (PhD)
Nicole De Brabandere (PhD) is a Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal based artist and researcher working at the intersection of research-creation, experimental media practice and theories of affect, materiality and corporeality. De Brabandere’s current research explores how interview practices within industrial and corporate cultures can become a means of experimental engagement with interview participants, creating speculative and affective sociabilities within cultures and infrastructures that are otherwise publicly inaccessible. De Brabandere holds a PhD in Artistic Research from the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) and the University of the Arts, Linz, is the author of several peer-reviewed journal articles, and is the editor of Media, Practice and Theory: tracking emergent thresholds of experience (2023) a volume comprising nine contributions spanning topics such as machine-learning, VR, film studies, critical sensory experimentation and performative archiving, Vernon Press.