Research Interests

• Bio-responsive wearables
• Technological bodies
• Cyborgs/Hybrids
• Sensor networks and responsive spaces
• Media as ecology

Exhibitions

Exhibitions(Solo)
2008

• Suzi Webster, curated by Monica Reyes, BackGallery Project, Vancouver, BC

2007

• Artefact, curated by Tomas Harold, Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, Liverpool, UK

Selected Exhibitions(Group)
2008

• Technothreads, curated by Marie O’Mahoney, Science Gallery, Naughton Institute, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
• Project Walkway and Fashionable Technology, Eyebeam Gallery, New York
• Social Fabrics, curated by Patrick Lichty and Susan Ryan for Leonardo Educational Forum and College Art Association, Dallas, Texas

2007

• Cyborgs: man or machine, curated by Sabine Seymour and Andrew Chetty, Dott 07 Design Biennale, Discovery Museum, Newcastle, UK
• Best of Graduate Video Art 2007, curated by Paul Chisholm, The Mouth That Roars, Studio 23, Shoreditch, London, UK
• MA/MFA degree show, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London, UK
• Charitable art/science collaborations, curated by Arthur Miller, Gallery 27, Cork Street, London, UK

2006

• Girls on Film, curated by Alissa Juvan, Manchester, UK
• Virtual Residency, organised byMonika Bohr, Claudia Brieske, Leslie Huppert and Gertrud Riethmüllerin with the Gallery Biala in Lublin (PL), the Gallery Faux Mouvement, Centre d'Art Contemporain in Metz (F), the BWA Gallery in Breslau (PL) and the Casino Luxembourg Forum d'art contemporain in Luxembourg (L).
• Wormhole Saloon, curated by Joel Cahen, Whitechapel Gallery, London
• Node London - Framed, curated by Susan Collins and Simon Faithful, Woburn Square Research Center, London, UK

2005

• Capturing Utopia, curated by Daphne Dragona, Fournos Center for Digital Culture, Athens, Greece
• Piksel05, curated by Gisle Froysland, Bergen Center for Electronic Arts, Norway
• Sixteen artists published in Itch, curated by Mehita Iquani, Boekehuis, Gauteng, South Africa
• Killer, curated by Monica Reyes, onepointsix Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
• Evolutions, juried Alumni Show at Emily Carr Institute, Vancouver, Canada
• Point of View, a media-art project by Euroscreen21projects online exhibition
• Project Room 203, curated by Wesley Yuen, Dominion Hotel Artist Room Installation
• Interactive Futures 05, the Victoria Independent Film and Video Festival at Open Space Artist’s Centre, Victoria, Canada

2004

• House Games with A Ruth, Jyväskylä, Finland
• Boundless with Jan Christiansen, Stenersenmuseet, Oslo, Norway
• VJ Fleet performer for Julie Andreyev, New Forms Festival, Vancouver, Canada

Professional Experience

Teaching
2007/2009

• Digital and Interactive Arts Sessional Faculty, Emily Carr Institute, Vancouver, Canada; Diva 300 Senior Studio, Diva 200 – Digital and Interactive Arts (team taught with Julie Andreyev and Simon Overstall), Diva 200 – Digital and Interactive Arts, CGIA 201 – Digital Imaging Essentials, Diva 301 – Online Senior Portfolio (online course)

2004/2005

• Spring 2005 Ahis333, Tutor, Art Forums: Studies in Contemporary Praxis, Investigating the Plot with Henry Tsang and Adrienne Lai
• Fall 2004 Ahis333, Tutor, Art Forums: Studies in Contemporary Praxis, Intersections with Ron Burnett and Alan Boykiew, ECI, Vancouver, Canada
• Tutor for students with special needs, ECI, Vancouver, Canada

1990 – 92

• Adult Education Outreach through Shawco and University of Cape Town, South Africa

 

Research/Artist’s Talks/Residencies
2009

• Artist in Residence; e-text and textiles, Riga, Latvia (upcoming)

2008

• Artist’s Talk: Inhale, Exhale; The Ins and Outs of Bioresponsive Wearables, Technothreads, Science Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
• Electric Dreams and Open Source Eeg; Ongoing research project partly supported by Intersections Digital Studio, Emily Carr, Vancouver, BC

2007

• Artist Talk: Cyborgs Dreaming, ECI, Vancouver, Canada
• Independent research initiative: Digital Dust: investigating the possibilities of virtual site specificity, Woburn Square Research Center, University College London, UK

2006

• Presenter: How Smart Are We Symposium, Royal Institute of British Architects, London, UK
• Guest Artist: Drifting,technical textiles and documentary film potentials in design research, with Bas Raijmakers, PhD candidate Interaction Design, Royal College of Art, London, UK

2005

• Artist Talk: Open Source and pd – a strategy for regaining artistic control of technology, Piksel05, BEK, Norway
• Public Lecture: Disorientations: Nomadic Urban Trajectories, Investigating the Plot: Location, Space and Narrative, ECI, Vancouver, Canada

2003

• Intern, New Media Research Institute, Vancouver, Canada
• Artist Talk: Webs of Connection, The University Women’s Club of Vancouver Young Voices Series, Vancouver, Canada
• SoftWear: Wearable Shareable Multimedia, Presentation for Emily Carr All Institute Meeting, Vancouver, Canada

Publications
2008

• Webster, Suzi. “Electric Skin”, Technothreads: What Fashion did Next – the Art and Science of Future Fashion (Science Gallery, Dublin, 2008) Marie O’Mahoney ISBN 978-0-9558957-0-8

• Webster, Suzi. “From Electric Skin to Electric Dreams” Fashionable Technology, The Intersection of Design, Fashion, Science and Technology (Springer, Wien and New York, 2008) edited by Sabine Seymour and Joe Lumsden, ISBN 978-3-211-744498-7
• Webster, Suzi. “Barking Mad and Electric Dreams” Intelligent Agent 8.1, edited by Christiane Paul with guest editors Susan E Ryan and Patrick Lichty
• Webster, Suzi. “Electric Skin” Our Cyborg Futures post exhibition publication, forthcoming

2007

• Webster, Suzi “Electric Dreams” visual essay, /seconds issue 7: sci-fi, utopia, roadside picnics, (Leeds Metropolitan University UK 2007) edited by Peter Lewis and Derek Horton

2005

• Webster, Suzi. “Mapping relational space – Mutating Points of View” catalogue essay: Piksel05 Exhibition Catalogue

2004            

• Webster, Suzi. “White Noise visual essay” Itch Contemporary Art Magazine, Volume 1: Issue 4, 2004, Cape Town, South Africa

 

Selected Bibliography (Print, Media)
2008

• Encompassing the Body, Wearable Technology and The Avatar, Susan Ryan, ISEA 2008 Conference Paper, Singapore, July, 2008, Upcoming
• The View: Technothreads, RTE TV One, Ireland, 6 May 2008
• Dreaming of Electric Skin, Marie Boran, Silicon Republic, Ireland, April 28, 2008
• Technothreads, the Tubridy Show, RTE Radio One, Ireland, April 24, 2008
• Gallerista, Aubin Van Berckel, Vancouver Lifestyles Magazine, April 2008
• Electric Skin, Teresa Henry, IDTechEx, March 18, 2008

2007

• Curator Opens Experimental Space, Galleries West, Canada First Impressions, Volume 6 No 2, Summer 2007
• The Arts Editor’s Pick of the Day, Digital (Features), Philip Key, Daily Post Liverpool, England, May 14, 2007
• Two Pints and a Packet of Lists, David Simister, Media-Arts Network Exhibition Review, Friday April 27, 2007
• Latest Artefact artist is unveiled at FACT, Foundation for Art and Creative Technology News, March 16, 2007
• Artefact: Suzi Webster, Media Arts Network, March 20, 2007

2006

• Electric Skin, Regine Debatty, we-make-money-not-art.com, 15 September 2006

2005

• Artscetera; review of Killer, Mary Frances Hill, Westender, October 11, 2005 p15
• House Games – Kotipeleja: Home becomes an exhibition Space, Asta Limmeri, Suur Jyvaskylan Lehti February 2, 2005
• Victoria Interactive Futures reviewed by Dene Grigar for Leonardo Online
• Red Feast for the Senses and 'Project', Vancouver Sun weekend edition, Arts and Life section, page D5, January 29, 2005
• Red Feast for the Senses, Information Updates with Maria Weisgarber at 4:56 pm, 7:56 pm, and 9:56 pm January 17 on channel 4, Shaw TV.
• Suzi Webster and Red Feast for the Senses, Stephanie Rosloski for ZeD TV, CBC Television.

 

Curatorial and Community Service
2007

• Charity fundraiser, Microsoft designit, on behalf of Global Action Plan, smallworld cultural arts collective and Leonard Cheshire UK
• Post-graduate assistant, E and Eye, art and poetry between the electronic and the visual, led by Penny Florence, Tim Mathews and John Cayley, Tate Modern

2006

• Coordinator, Contemporary Critiques: Navigating theory post-graduate discussion group with Klaas Hoek, Slade School of Fine Art

• Co-Curator with James Sweetbaum, Morocco UK Video Exchange, London and Casablanca
• Post-Graduate Curator, Best of Slade DVD Exchange, Art Institute of Chicago
• Post-Graduate Steering Committee member, Framed, Woburn Square Research Space, London

2005

• Volunteer Assistant, Interrogating Fashion: New Paradigms for design, The ICA and London College of Fashion, London, UK

2004

• Coordinator, Emily Carr Institute’s Film and Animation Show, Van East Cinema, Vancouver, Canada
• Co-Curator, Threshold, Concourse Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

Education
2007 - Master of Fine Arts Media. The Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London, UK
2004 - Bachelor of Fine Arts.  Emily Carr Institute, Vancouver, Canada
2001 - Diploma in Fine Arts.  Langara Community College, Vancouver, Canada
1992 - Bachelor of Art (Hons).  University of Cape Town, South Africa

Awards
2007

• Slade Scholarship, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL

2006

• Thomas Scholarship, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL
• University College London Alumni Scholarship, UCL
• Lightfoot Scholarship, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL

2005

• Slade Project Award, UCL
• Travel Grant for Media Art Professionals, Canada Council for the Arts
• Senior Award, British Columbia Arts Council, Canada

2001

• Dean’s List for academic excellence, Langara College, Vancouver, Canada
• Summer Scholarship at Malaspina Printmakers, Vancouver, Canada
• Bill Watson Memorial Award, Best Printmaker, Langara College, Vancouver, Canada
• India Club Scholarship for Art and Community, Langara College, Vancouver, Canada

1990 – 1992

• Isaac Ochberg Scholarship, University of Cape Town, South Africa
• Elaine Forsyth Trust Scholarship, University of Cape Town, South Africa