Presenter

Clea T. Waite, Ph.D. is an internationally exhibited intermedia artist, scholar, engineer, and experimental filmmaker whose artworks investigate 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 inter-species collaboration with several hundred tropical spiders. Drawing on her multidisciplinary background, her practice is modeled on the experimental laboratory, combining research with art-making and scientific collaborations. Project themes examine climate change and 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.