Clea von Chamier-Waite

Associate Professor

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 that emerge 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.

Waite’s research encompasses the areas of 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. Her projects thematically examine climate change, water ecology, astronomy, particle physics, feminism, and popular culture.

Waite received her PhD from the University of Southern California in Media Arts + Practice, School of Cinematic Arts. She received her SMVis from the MIT Media Lab, 3D Computer Graphics and Animation Group, and her SB from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, in Physics and Electrical Engineering.

Waite’s artworks have been exhibited and awarded internationally, notably the National Academies Keck Futures Initiative, IBM Innovation Prize for Artistic Creation in Art and Technology, Ars Electronica, SIGGRAPH, The China-Hangzhou Biennale of Art and Technology, the GC3 at the Miraikan National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, the Lumen Prize, and the Open Sky Project for ICC Hong Kong. Waite’s fellowships include an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellow, a Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies Fellow, CERN European Laboratory for Particle Physics artist-in-residence, ISEA AiR, Artists-in-Labs HKGZ, and fellow at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne.