Sarah Waterson - is an installation/multi-media artist, whose work deals with the influence of electronic technologies on subjectivities. Over the past fifteen years she has exhibited her installations/interactive environments and digital works both nationally within Australia and internationally, including Germany, Finland and the USA. Waterson has worked extensively to incorporate new technologies into live performance, including contain.her (a collaboration with Heather Grace Jones, Anna Sabiel and Brad Miller -part of the new narratives program at the Performance Space, Australia), Internalised Cities and memo- a virtual environment that extended the conceptual concerns of a live performance. Waterson has participated in many online events including: ID_Runners live media performance (Francesca Di Rimini and Agnese Trocchi), Artspace, Sydney (Part of the Australian TILT event, Oct, 2001). Waterson was also a participating artist in the Brandon Project, Guggenhiem Museum, New York, USA (1999)
Her recent interactive electronic installations have included: subscapePROOF (collaboration with Kate Richards, Australian Centre for the Moving Image 04), subscapeBALTIC (collaboration with Kate Richards, ISEA2004) Mapping E~Motion (exhibited at The National Gallery of Victoria, The Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia and SoundWatch , Artspace, New Zealand) incorporated electronic circuits to "mimic" the effect of pheremones on nipple erection, and trans.mute (a Sydney City Council public art commission involving web enabled rubbish bins transmitting ideas of space and place via a bulletin board and voice/text translation) amongst many others. Her current interests include interactive environments for performance and virtual environments for the web. Waterson currently lectures in digital media, and is the Head of Program for Design at the School of Communication, Design and Media, University of Western Sydney, Australia.