Biography
Dr Rewa Wright is a media arts and computational design researcher with a collaborative and transdisciplinary practice encompassing exhibition, performance, publication, presentation, and community engagement. Rewa’s work has been included in the SIGGRAPH 2023 (Los Angeles), SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 (Sydney), SIGGRAPH Asia Art Gallery 2019 (Brisbane), Ars Electronica: In Kepler’s Gardens 2020 (online), the Aotearoa Digital Arts Symposium 2022, The Wrong Biennale, and 6 iterations of the International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA). She is Senior Lecturer in Creative Practice (Film, Screen & Animation) at Queensland University of Technology, Australia. Working with various modes of analogue and digital art since 1998, Rewa has over 20 years of experience in various aspects of motion-based and sonic media, including live performance, music, digital design, and virtual image creation. As an intra-active media designer, experimental media artist and inverse technologist, research is both traditional and practice-based. Rewa’s projects weave together emerging technologies, Indigenous justice, clean blockchains and digital healthcare. An ecologically conscious researcher, she commits to ensuring her techniques and methods are sustainable, create positive social impact in both local and global communities, and respect Indigenous knowledge systems. Her Māori heritage (Ngāi Tawake/Te Kaimaroke/Te Uri o Hau hapu of Aotearoa/New Zealand) is a strength, and affords the capacity to draw on ancient non-Western knowledge from an embodied as well as a scholarly perspective.
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