PhD thesis
“Body and Identity in Digital Space”, Theory of Art and Media Department – Interdisciplinary Studies
University of Arts in Belgrade
BA
Bachelor of Philology – Chinese Language and Literature
Oriental Studies Department, Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade
Research Area
Jelena Guga is a theorist of art and new media. As a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Interdisciplinary Activities, New Technologies Research Center, University of West Bohemia in Plzen, Czech Republic, she worked on the Human Cognitive Enhancement project. She was a visiting researcher at the Pompeu Fabre University, Barcelona, Spain, where she and a team of neuroscientists from the SPECS Group conducted research that empirically examined her theoretical assumptions about the role of corporeality in virtual environments. Her main interests include information, nano, bio and cognitive technologies and the ways they transform and redefine art, culture, and society. Exploring the new media art practices and scientific and technological development within the fields of critical theory, art theory, (new) media theory, study of culture, posthumanism, philosophy of mind, as well as the narratives of dystopian science fiction, she focuses on the issues of identity, corporeality, agency and perception in technologically mediated interactions and environments.
Current position
Research Fellow and Coordinator at the Digital Society Lab of the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory
Selected publications
- Guga, J. (2021), “MetaGarden: Technology and Nature in the Works of Tanja Vujinović“, AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 25, pp. 97-109, doi: 10.25038/am.v0i25.450
- Grechuta, K., Guga, J., Maffei, G. et al. (2017), “Visuotactile integration modulates motor performance in a perceptual decision-making task”, Nature Scientific Reports 7, 3333, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-03488-0
- Guga, J. (2015), Digital Self: How We Became Binary, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, ISBN 978-80-261-0417-9
- Guga, J. (2015), “Ka proširenoj realnosti: dijalektika fizičkog i virtuelnog prostora”, Sociološki pregled, vol. XLIX, no. 3, pp. 265-277, RS ISSN 0085-6320 / UDK316
- Guga, J. (2014), “Cyborg Tales: The Reinvention of the Human in the Information Age”, in Romportl, J., Zackova, E., Kelemen, J. (eds.), Beyond Artificial Intelligence: The Disappearing Human-Machine Divide, Springer Verlag, pp. 45-62, ISBN 978-3-319-09667-4, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-09668-1
- Guga, J. (2015), “Virtual Idol Hatsune Miku: New Auratic Experience of the Performer as a Collaborative Platform”, in Brooks, A. L., Ayiter, E., Yazicigil, O., Arts and Technology: Fourth International Conference, ArtsIT 2014, Springer Verlag, pp. 36-44, ISBN 978-3-319-18835-5, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-18836-2
- Guga, J. (2013), “In the Machine We Trust: Cyborg Body of Philosophy, Religion and Fiction”, in Romportl, J., Zackova, E., Ircing, P., Polak, M., Schuster, R. (eds.), Beyond AI: Artificial Golem Intelligence, Proceeding of the International Conference Beyond AI 2013, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, pp. 58-68, ISBN 978-80-261-0275-5
- Guga, J. (2013), “Coding Architecture: Digital Urbanities in New Media Art”, in Bogdanović, R. (ed.), On Architecture – International Conference and Exhibition, Conference Proceedings, STRAND – Sustainable Urban Society Association, Belgrade, pp. 279-89, ISBN 978-86-89111-04-0