Desiree Foerster studies new media arts and design from a process-relational and critical phenomenology perspective. She is currently based at the University of Chicago, where she is a Senior Research Associate in the Cinema and Media Studies department and the director of the Gray CoLaboratory for the Arts and Science. Previously, Desiree was an Assistant Professor for Digital Media and Culture Studies at the Utrecht University. She did her PhD at the Institute for Arts and Media at the University of Potsdam with her thesis “Aesthetic Experience of Metabolic Processes,” and she holds additional degrees in Media Culture Analysis from Duesseldorf (MA) and Comparative Literature and Philosophy (BA) from Bochum. She regularly collaborates with colleagues from the arts and sciences on projects of research-creation. Her research interests include: phenomenology of media, media ecologies, affect, process philosophy, sensory studies, and immersive technologies. See more on her website.