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, Austria and Sweden.

Education

• BA(Hons) First Class Architecture
• University of Cambridge, St Catharine’s College

• MA Cantab.

• MPhil Architecture and the Moving Image
• Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge, Darwin College
• Funded by Arts and Humanities Research Board

Talks and Paper Presentations

• "Emergent Dimensions"
• International Conference for Digital Technology and the Performance Arts 2006 ( DTPA), Doncaster University, U.K. 27/06/06

• "Embodied Topologies"
• Spatial Practices: Photography, Video and Architecture April 2005, University College for the Creative Arts, Maidstone, U.K. April 2005

• Immersive Environments and contemporary Architecture
• MPhil Seminar, Digital Studios, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge, March 2005

• Artist in Residents Talk
• Ars Electronica 2004, IAMAS Exhibition, Austria Sept 2004