Rewa Wright

Bio:

• Dr. Rewa Wright is Lecturer in Creative Technologies at the University of Newcastle in Australia. Originally from Aotearoa/New Zealand, she is Māori from Ngāti Whātua and Ngāpuhi iwi. She uses embodied movements to perform with plants, software, and sensors, in a perceptually challenging infra-red mixed reality. Her vision punctuated by digital augments, she co-composes with the bio-electrical signals of living plants, generating an audio-visual swarm of movement and sound.

Writings and Presentations:

• Title: Contact/Sense
  Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
  Author(s):
  • Rewa Wright
  • Simon Howden
  
  Exhibition: SIGGRAPH Asia 2019: Deep Dreaming
  Abstract Summary:

  When we feel and sense through machines, are we still ourselves? In a mixed reality where embodied actions and blinding visions are part woman/part machine, the tactile surface of plants is a portal that conjures augmented materialities into existence.

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  Role(s):

  
  
  • Artist
  • Speaker/Presenter