Yotam Shibolet is a PhD. candidate and teacher at Utrecht University’s media department. Born and raised in Tel-Aviv, he is a cum laude graduate of Utrecht University’s Media, Art and Performance Research program and of the Marc Rich Honors program in the Humanities and Arts at Tel-Aviv University.

His interdisciplinary research on ‘embodied narrativity’ spans media phenomenology, embodied and enactive cognition theories, narrative identity theories and the study of new and interactive forms of storytelling. It aims to analyze how the perception of movement and embodied interaction give rise to the formation and interpretation of stories.