Mac(Kayla) Kelsey



  • Media Arts Teacher
  • Embodiment Researcher
  • Artist In-between



About/CV (Forthcoming)






(Site in process)
     Teaching (Forthcoming)

    01. Post-Secondary:

         TEAC 330: Education and Culture 

         EMAR 160: Computation and Media 

    02. Community:

          Alternate Plains
Researching

01. Kelsey, M. (Under Review). “In touch, out of sight: Intimate pedagogies and vulnerable literacies as counter-surveillant practice in media education” (Under Review). Vulnerabilties, Leonardo Journal.

02. Kelsey, M. (Under Review). “Water as educational media: A hydropedagogy and fluid methodology”. Journal of Embodied Research.

03. Catalano, T., Malgoubri, I., Bockerman, J., Palala-Martinez, H., Kelsey, M., Brandolini, L., & Scherbokav, I. (2024). “Collaborative aesthetic experiences and teacher learners: Arts-practice research in a teacher education classroom.” International Journal of Education and the Arts.
           Art
  
         01. Linger, Longer (2025)
 
         02. Notes on Healing (2024)

         03. Making Sense (2024)

         04. SoftWear (2024)

         05. The Sensing Wall (2023)

        06. BodyCode (2022)











About


I am an embodiment researcher, emerging media arts teacher, and artist in-between,

currently pursuing a PhD in Educational Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where I serve as a teaching and research assistant with the Department of Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education and the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts. 

I investigate affects, materialities, and relations between somatic and speculative practices, attending in particular, to the engagement of touch across contexts of teaching and learning, and the influence touch has on learning foundations of imaginative practices core to media arts education. My teaching, researching, and art-making practices exist in a relation matrix which embeds hapticity as both a theoretical orientation and location of praxis, guided by eco-critical encounters.  

Current passions and investigations across, through, and within my practices inlcude: 
      1.) water as a pedagogical model and materiality in computation, 
      2.) networked affects of intimacy, touch as social circuitry, and skin as educational interface,
      3.) infrastructures of decay in opposition to techno-cultural novelty and expansion, and
      4.) design justice, liberatory curriculum, and somatic pedagogy in speculative practice. 

Contributions to the fields of somatic and speculative practices, and more broadly, education in emerging media arts, have been or will be shared through and supported by the International Journal of Education and the Arts, the National Dance Education Organization, the Society for the Study of Affect, and the Journal of Embodied Research (forthcoming).