Desiree Förster is currently a postdoctoral instructor at the Cinema and Media Department, University of Chicago. Before, she graduated from the Institute for Arts and Media, University of Potsdam with her thesis “Aesthetic Experience of Metabolic Processes”. Taking on the perspective of process philosophy and media-aesthetics, she investigates here the impacts of liminal experiences on human subjectivity. She conducted several research creation projects together with artists, designers and academics from Concordia University (CA), Arizona State University (US), and IXDM, Basel (CH) in order to explore liminal experiences within aesthetic milieus. Her research interests are Aesthetics, Media Ecologies, Affective Media, Embodiment, Phenomenology, Process Philosophy, Immersive Environments. Further information: dfoerster.org