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Clea T. Waite
Clea T. Waite, Ph.D., is an internationally exhibited intermedia artist, scholar, engineer and experimental filmmaker investigating the material poetics emerging at the intersection of art, science and technology. She is pioneer artist of immersive, cinematic works engaging embodied perception, dynamic composition and sensual interfaces – as well as one interspecies collaboration with several hundred tropical spiders. Her multidisciplinary practice is modelled on the experimental laboratory, combining research, art-making and scientific collaborations. Her project themes examine climate change, water ecology, astronomy, particle physics, feminism and popular culture. She brings a unique blend of expertise to her projects from which cross-disciplinary synergies emerge. Recent exhibitions include: Cosmos and Chaos: CyFEST-13; Ars Electronia: A New Digital Deal, Barcelona; Space CODAME Art+Tech Festival 2019, San Francisco; the Open Sky Project, Hong Kong; and the Boston CyberArts Festival. Awards include the National Academies Keck Futures Initiative, the IBM Innovation Prize for Artistic Creation in Art and Technology and the Medienboard Berlin/Brandenburg.