Flora Lysen

Dr. Flora Lysen is an assistant professor at Maastricht University. Her academic work combines historical and STS-methods to study the impact of new (media) technologies on cognitive science, behavioural science and medicine since the mid-20th century. Her book “Brainmedia: One Hundred Years of Performing Live Brains, 1920-2020,” was published in 2022. Lysen is interested in exploring new approaches to historical and archival research together with artists. She was a teacher for the MA program “F for Fact,” at the Sandberg Institute Amsterdam and iniator of the ‘Artists & Archivists’ meet-ups in collaboration with the International Institute for Social History in Amsterdam. Previously, she worked as a curator, researcher, teacher and organizer for several cultural institutions, including the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), the Royal Academy of Art (The Hague), BAK, Basis voor Actuele Kunst (Utrecht), and If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want to Be Part of Your Revolution (Amsterdam). Currently, se is a member of MERIAN (the Maastricht university Experimental Research In And through the Arts Network).