Originally trained as an architect, Joanna Autumn Walker is now working in the field of interactive video installation and digital art. After working in architectural practice in San Francisco and London, she completed an MPhil in Architecture and the Moving Image at the Digital Research Studio, University of Cambridge combining her skills as architect, film maker, animator and artist. In 2003 she was invited to IAMAS (Institute for Advanced Media Arts and Science) in Japan, for a 6 month residency. She has lectured and exhibited digital art works, installation and video works in the U.K, U.S, Japan, Korea, Prague, and Austria.
E d u c a t i o n
- BA(Hons) First Class * Architecture, 1993-7
- University of Cambridge, St Catharine’s College
- Third year design project: Thematics of liminality: projects of the in-between
- Dissertation: The ephemeral and the universal: the ambiguity of sacred allusion in the work of Luis Barragan
- Awarded *Massachusetts Institute of Technology Exchange Scholarship 1997*
- MPhil Architecture and the Moving Image, 1999-2001
- Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge, Darwin College
- Funded by Arts and Humanities Research Board
- Thesis: Augmented Realities, Architectures of Desire – Spatiality in the interaction of the virtual and real. Research of the spatial and conceptual dynamics of the body in space in video installation art. Production of numerous videos and animations
- PhD ongoing research
- Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge, Darwin College
- Funded by Arts and Humanities Research Board, U.K. , I.A.M.A.S and Gifu Prefecture, Japan
- Theoretical and practical research of immersive environments
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