Dr Deirdre Feeney is a multi-disciplinary artist and academic with research interests in optical image systems as perceptual tools for generating wonder and awareness of technologically mediated experience. Deirdre engages in cross-disciplinary collaboration with scientists and engineers to explore and realise her ideas. In 2020/21 she undertook a MAAS Research Fellowship and ANAT Synapse Residency.
Her background in glassmaking and the projected moving image were pivotal to her current practice encompassing material and digital methods to create her optical image systems. Deirdre is a Lecturer of Contemporary Art at the University of South Australia and a member of the Australian Research Centre for Interactive and Virtual Environments. You can learn more about Deirdre and view her work on her website: www.deirdrefeeney.com