The religious performance and theater of Renaissance and Baroque are constituted by their emphasis on spectacular elements, visceral features, and intense stagings. Still, rarely the direct and embodied influence of those aspects on the contemporary audience are discussed, abstracting the individual experience.

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Aska Mayer (M.A.) is a Doctoral Researcher within the research group CONVERGENCE of Humans and Machines (Tampere University), as well as an Affiliated Doctoral Researcher at the Finnish Center of Excellence in Game Culture Studies, researching the role of playfulness in human augmentation, combining HCI, Game Studies, and Somaesthetics.

Additional areas of research include idea-historical approaches to digital games, philosophy of the neo-baroque, and apocalyptic media culture.