Clea von Chamier-Waite, Ph.D. (aka Clea T. Waite) 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 a pioneer of immersive, cinematic artworks engaging embodied perception, dynamic composition, and sensual interfaces – and one inter-species collaboration with several hundred tropical spiders. Her multidisciplinary practice is modeled on the experimental laboratory, combining research, art-making, and scientific collaborations. Project themes examine climate change, water ecology, astronomy, particle physics, feminism, and popular culture.
Research Areas:
Science-Art as Media-specific Practice, Spatial Cinema/ Immersive Cinema, including: 360°-cinema, Fulldome, Multi-channel Video Installation, and Alternative and Emerging Screen Technologies, Embodied Form and Somatic Interfaces, XR/VR, Experimental Cinema, and Data Poetics.