ISEA2024

Sarah Waterson is a media artist and practice-led researcher, driven by themes of mapping, materiality, and data ecologies. Her approach invites audiences to engage with the politics of representation and the embedded systems that form them. With over thirty years of specialisation, she has embraced collaborative, experimental practices, including non-human collaborations, site-specific electronic arts, data-driven installations, generative and software based artworks. Waterson’s research interrogates scientific, historical, and philosophic frames to refine her experimental art forms. She has exhibited interactive environments nationally and internationally, including Hothouse (Cementa2019) Laika’s Derive (Carriageworks, and ISEA2013), 33ºSouth (with Juan Francisco Salazar), and trope (Sydney Writers Festival). Collaborations with Kate Richards produced projects such as subscape- PROOF (Australian Centre for the Moving Image, and Sydney Opera House) and subscape- BALTIC (ISEA2004). Waterson’s career underscores a dedication to expanding experimental art while blending artistic vision with interdisciplinary inquiry. Waterson is a senior lecturer at the School of Humanities and Communication Arts, Western Sydney University, Australia.

ISEA2013

  • Sarah Waterson, School of Humanities and Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney, Werrington South Campus, Penrith, AU