Senior Lecturer Sarah Waterson

• Biography
• Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise
• Grants / Current Projects
• Selected Publications
• Other Activities
• Contact Details

Biography

Sarah Waterson is a new media artist, designer and senior lecturer in interactive design, whose work deals with the influence of electronic technologies on subjectivities and how design as a discipline can inform practice and inter-disciplinary collaboration/s. Over the past twenty years she has exhibited interactive environments nationally and internationally. Recent interactive installations have included: 33ºSouth - a three-channel audio-visual installation that juxtaposes the cities of Sydney (Australia) and Santiago (Chile) using a custom made data mapping system and database (collaboration with Juan Francisco Salazar), trope, a new writing project developed for the Second Life environment (SWF 08), subscapePROOF, a custom made data mapping system (collaboration with Kate Richards, Australian Centre for the Moving Image 04/05), and subscapeBALTIC (collaboration with Kate Richards, ISEA2004).

Her recent publications include book Chapter in collaboration with Dr Juan Francisco Salazar: Play _Space; Conceptualizing Interactive Media for Community Participation. PLACE: Local Knowledge and New Media Practice, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008.

Her current interests include data mapping, data ecologies and embodied media.
Waterson is the Associate Head of School (Academic), School of Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney, Australia.

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Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise

Interaction design, interactive media, screen design, data mapping, data ecologies, convergent media theory.

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Grants / Current Projects

2007-2009: 33ºSouth. Interactive video installation and data-mapping system. Casula Powerhouse, Australia. Research and Development grant. Funded by the Inter Arts Office of the Australia Council for the Arts.

2007/8: trope. Virtual environment for new writing in SecondLife.
Research and Development grant. Funded by the Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts

2007 Laboratory of Advanced Media Production (LAMP)
Couran Cove, Queensland, Australia.
Project - ALT + Control
Target Media: Broadband PC, Mobile Phones, Locative, Virtual Worlds and TV
AFTRS / Australia Council for the Arts grant.

2007: Copper Promises. Collaboration with Victoria Hunt (Key Artist), Barbara Campbell and Keren Ruiki, CarriageWorks, Sydney. Research and Development grant. Funded by the Inter Arts and Dance board of the Australia Council for the Arts

2006 SYNCITY Remixing three generations of sample culture, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia. 21 October - 26 November

2006 subscapeMachima, D>Art 06, The Studio, Sydney Opera House. 12th April 2006.

2005 STOP THIS CULTURE OF SILENCE. STOP THIS CULTURE OF FEAR.
Artists Against Sedition Laws Exhibition, Casula Powerhouse Arts centre, Casula.

2005 TPS_4 Time, Place Space, A two-week workshop facilitated by national and international cross-disciplinary specialists. Adelaide Centre for the Arts.
UWS Professional Development Grant

2003: Waikato Residency Grant. Waikato, New Zealand. A cross cultural and interdisciplinary focused residency. Key outcomes of the project included the development, initial production and research work towards a gesture controlled installation and triggered landscape video installation. Research Grant Funded by Multi Board, the Australia Council for the Arts

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Selected Publications

2008 Play _Space; Conceptualizing Interactive Media for Community Participation. PLACE: Local Knowledge and New Media Practice, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008. Book Chapter in collaboration with Dr Juan Francisco Salazar.

2009 eye>hand>body> Data visualisation and the body in new media works. Sarah Waterson and Kate Richards. 2009. Paper presentation. International Symposium of Electronic Art, Belfast.

2009 33ºSouth. Interactive video installation mapping Santiago to Sydney.
Casula Powerhouse, Australia.

Research and Development grant. Funded by the Inter Arts Office of the Australia Council for the Arts

2008 trope. Virtual environment for new writing in SecondLife.

Research and Development grant. Funded by the Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts

2006 SYNCITY Remixing three generations of sample culture, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia. 21 October - 26 November

2006 subscapeMachima, D>Art 06, The Studio, Sydney Opera House. 12th April 2006.

2005 STOP THIS CULTURE OF SILENCE. STOP THIS CULTURE OF FEAR.
Artists Against Sedition Laws Exhibition, Casula Powerhouse Arts centre, Casula.

2005 TPS_4 Time, Place Space, A two-week workshop facilitated by national and international cross-disciplinary specialists. Adelaide Centre for the Arts.

UWS Professional Development Grant

2005 subscapeSINGLE: Camera Obscura, Level 2. 144 Cleveland St. Chippendale Nov 2005

2005 Boxed Set, data knitting performance, part of e)scapes, Medium Rare Gallery, Redfern. Curated by Gail Priest. Collaboration with Jodi Rose.

2004/5 sub_scapePROOF, exhibited as part of PROOF, Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), collaboration with Kate Richards.

2004 sub_scapeBALTIC, ISEA (International Symposium of Electronic Art), Baltic Sea Helsinki to Talinn, Estonia, August 11-21 2004.
Collaboration with Kate Richards. sub_scape is a realtime data mapping system.
ISEA catalogue entry:

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Other Activities

Additional Professional Experience / Paper Presentations

2008 trope: text and new media contexts, Melbourne Writers Festival. Panel presentation.

2008 trope: Promoting New Writing in Second Life, Sydney Writers Festival. Paper presentation.

2005 PROOF public forum on truth and media. Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), Federation Square, Melbourne. Presenter.

2003 Interactivity and installation. Waikato Museum, Hamilton (12.02.03)
Artist Presentation

2003 Installation and New Media. Artspace, Auckland (13.02.03)
Artist Presentation

2003 Interactivity and New Media Art. E-Vision, Wellington (20.02.03)
Artist Presentation

2003 Guest Professor, Game Design. Cologne International School of Design (KISD). Germany. Convened 2 week master class game design, and public lecture.

Professional Organisations

dLux Media Arts, Board member and President 2004-2006, Board member 2000-2004

ANAT (Australian Network for Art and Technology) - member

The Performance Space - member

Leonardo - member

Higher Degree Supervisions/Completions

2004-07 (co-supervision with Dr Garth Paine) George Poonkhin Khut, Development and Evaluation of Participant-Centred Biofeedback Artworks. Doctorate of Creative Arts, University of Western Sydney. Practicum presented at the Powerhouse Museum Sydney Sept 05.

2004-08 (co-supervision with Dr Garth Paine) Jon Drummond. Interactive Electroacoustics. PHD, University of Western Sydney.

2007 Sarah Young. The impact of participatory design on digital games design. BDesign Honours Thesis. University of Western Sydney.

2006 James Jamias. Developing User Experience through
Explorative Interface Design. BDesign Honours Thesis. University of Western Sydney.

2005 Charles Dennington. The online environment as publishing form and the impact on Photographic working methodologies and editing conventions. BDesign Honours Thesis. University of Western Sydney.

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