Doctor Sarah Waterson

Senior Lecturer,
Design

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Biography

Sarah Waterson is a senior lecturer in interactive design, and new media artist, designer 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: 33degrees 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.

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Qualifications

PhD University of New South Wales
MA University of New South Wales
DipEd University of Sydney
BA(VisArts) Sydney College of Advanced Education

Organisational Unit (School / Division)

Design

Contact

Email:	sj.waterson@westernsydney.edu.au
Phone:	(02) 9685 4672
Mobile:	0414208029
Location:	ED.G.68 Parramatta

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Teaching

Previous Teaching Areas

COMM2019 Interactive Design: Games, 2022
DESN2005 Graphic Design: Interactive Digital Media, 2022
DESN3002 Data Visualisation, 2022
DESN3008 Interactive Design: Apps, 2022

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

Waterson, S. (2013), 'Data ecologies : Laika's Derive and datawork', International Symposium of Electronic Art, Sydney, N.S.W..
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

2023, 'WeatherState'
2022, 'Weather System Project: Water State Sketches'
2017, 'Hothouse'
2012, 'WWW: World Wild Web - Laika's Derive - the Dogs De Tour'
2011, 'genart_sys | a window on digital culture'
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'
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

Waterson's current interests include data mapping, data ecologies and embodied media and definitions of data, specifically in media art practice. She applies a relational understanding of data, that is that data as as part of an ecology—that is, "having an ecological context and frame" . This approach challenges simplistic readings of data, highlighting the assumptions around data as "raw", neutral or pure. Data needs to be understood as interrelated with materiality. The data works produced consider the complex and relational nature of data—both as it emerges from human systems, and as it produces those systems. Data matters and has matter. Her current work centres on historical data and systems development for presenting a poetic response that it attendeant to the provenance.