
Rocio von Jungenfeld
is a German / Spanish creative practitioner, media researcher and academic. She is Senior Lecturer in Digital Media at the University of Kent, UK (Engineering and Digital Design).
Her practice-based research focuses on embodied perception and how art & technology alter human – non-human interactions. Her creative practice involves collaborative, interdisciplinary, and participatory media production; hybrid / immersive installation environments; outdoor and mobile projections; interaction design; and media art in public space.
Her collaborative artwork ‘Lichtsuchende’ (with Dave Murray-Rust) won the British Computer Society A.I. Award at The Lumen Prize 2019. She has been involved in the creative integration of technology for two large research projects (Playing A/Part and SOCORRO). In 2023, her work ‘zones of flow (iv)’ received a Site Responsive Art Program Award from the I-Park Foundation Inc. (US).
She has presented her artistic, collaborative and research work in venues and publications such as ZKM (GLOBALE), HfG/ZKM (BEYOND), IBM (The Lumen Prize), Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Machine Gods), Edinburgh International Science Festival, New Technology Art Awards (Update_5), Media Art Nexus Singapore (ON | OFF), Edinburgh International Festival (Glitch’d), National Museum of Scotland (RTD2017), Historic Dockyard Portsmouth, Talbot Rice Gallery, Inspace Gallery, Edinburgh Arts Festival, Margate Festival, I-Park Inc., ACM CHI, DIS, IMX and, ACM Creativity & Cognition, EvoMusArt, Leonardo, ISEA, AMPS, NeuroIPS, and NECS.
She obtained her PhD in Media Arts (‘Walking with portable projections’) at Edinburgh College of Art (University of Edinburgh) under the supervision of Prof Chris Speed and Prof Simon Biggs, holds an MSc in Design & Digital Media from the University of Edinburgh (supported by the Junta de Andalucia TALENTIA scholarship), and an BFA in Printing Media from the University of Barcelona (Erasmus Scholarship at HfG Offenbach am Main & Fine Arts Foundation Studies at the University of Seville). Since 2019, she is Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA), and since 2022, member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Peer Review College.
Image credit (top) Parag K Mital