Ms Sarah Waterson
SENIOR LECTURER,
Design (SoHCA)
Personal
Qualifications
- MA University of New South Wales
- BA(VisArts) Sydney College of Advanced Education
- DipEd University of Sydney
UWS Organisational Unit (School / Division)
- Design (SoHCA)
Contact
| Email: | sj.waterson@uws.edu.au |
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| Extension: | 5451 |
| Mobile: | 0414208029 |
| Location: | BB.1.25 Penrith (Werrington South) |
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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: 33?South - 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.
This information has been contributed by Ms Waterson.
Publications
Chapters in Books
- Salazar, J. and Waterson, S. (2008), 'Play_Space: Interactive media practices for community participation and cultural transformation', Place: Local Knowledge and New Media Practice, Cambridge Scholars Publishing 9781847184849.
Conference Papers
- Richards, K. and Waterson, S. (2009), 'eye>hand>body> Data Visualisation and the Body in New Media Works', ISEA2009: The 15th International Symposium on Electronic Arts, Belfast, Ireland.
Exhibitions
- 2012, 'WWW: World Wild Web'
- 2011, 'genart_sys | a window on digital culture'
- 2011, 'Laika's Derive; the dog's DeTour'
- 2011, 'ANIMALS, PEOPLE - A Shared Environment. 4th Biennial Australian Animal Studies Group Conference Exhibition 2011'
- 2010, 'Bump Projects: Bloodbath'
- 2010, 'Bump Projects: Bloodbath'
- 2009, '33?south'
- 2008, 'trope'
- 2007, ''The Uncertainty Principle' photographic exhibition'
- 2006, 'd/Art/06 Screen'
- 2006, 'SYNCITY Remixing three generations of sample culture'
- 2005, 'sub_scapePROOF - group exhibition'
- 2004, 'Sub_scapeBALTIC - group exhibitions'
Other Publications
- 2008, 'trope', Recorded Work
- 2006, 'subscapePROOF machinima', Recorded Work
Research
Previous Projects
| Title: | 33? South; Mapping Sydney to Santiago |
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| Years: | 2006-09-01 - 2009-04-30 |
| ID: | P0015484 |
| UWS Researchers: | Sarah Waterson and Juan Francisco Salazar |
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| Title: | Virtual and Interactive Performance Research Environment (VIPRE) |
| Years: | 2005-10-05 - 2008-05-31 |
| ID: | P0014812 |
| UWS Researchers: | Garth Paine, Ian Stevenson, Glen Mcgillivray, Ronaldo Morelos and Sarah Waterson |
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| Title: | Gestural VRML Space |
| Years: | 2000-05-12 - 2001-05-31 |
| ID: | P0012928 |
| UWS Researchers: | Sarah Waterson |
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