Learn at AwhiWorld through our educational talks, interviews, workshops and learning events. You’ll also find some background documentation for our innovation labs.
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ARG: Terri Donaldson
Terri Donaldson owns Wharepuke Organics - a certified organic dairy farm- with her partner Kenny Finlayson. She is heavily involved in numerous projects both in the community and artistic spaces, including creative… -
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ARG: Daniël Vandersmissen / Dan Yapungku
Daniël Vandersmissen / Dan Yapungku lives in Belgium and creates installations and performances related to social themes and events. As an artist, he alternates between making analogue and digital images: paintings, drawings,… -
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ARG: Hamish Oakley-Brown
Hamish Oakley-Browne is an artist and Director of Te Kowhai Print Trust, a community-owned open-access print studio in Northland. His art practice is centred on the tradition of fine arts printmaking. Having… -
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ARG: Aotearoa Digital Arts
In these two presentations, Vicki Smith and Ted Whittaker of Aotearoa Digital Arts Network (ADA) discuss how they have been cultivating connections through their organisation. Aotearoa Digital Arts (ADA) is a… -
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ARG: Mary Pedicini
Mary Pedicini is an American sculptor based in London, who works at the intersection of art and science, independently and as part of the transdisciplinary SEADS collective. Her work is grounded in… -
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ARG: Kim Newall
Kim Newall is a creative practitioner, educator, and performer. He has a Master's in Creative Technologies and a long history of working at the intersection of the physical and digital worlds. He… -
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ARG: Elise Koncsek
Elise Koncsek is an installation artist living in Whangārei, originally from Seattle, specializing in immersive and interactive art. Drawing from a background in biology, anthropology, and environmental rejuvenation, Elise is developing a… -
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ARG: Mark Williams – CIRCUIT Artist Moving Image
Mark Williams is the Founder/Director of CIRCUIT, an arts agency based in Wellington. CIRCUIT distributes over 1000 videos by 200 New Zealand artists from the 1970s to 2023. CIRCUIT's activities include commissioning new… -
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ARG: Professor Frances Joseph
Professor Joseph is a designer and maker and a researcher at Huri Te Ao/The School of Future Environments at Auckland University of Technology and director of Intra-Action Initiatives. Her interest in new… -
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ARG: Dr Roy Davies
Dr. Roy Davies is a pioneer in Virtual Reality and Calm Computing. He completed his post-graduate studies at Lund University in Sweden and set up one of the first VR research centers… -
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BIOS Zone 5: The Evolving Zone
Zone 5 was an evolving zone featuring base content by Maggie Buxton documenting experiments with bio-plastics, 3D printing and stereo microscopy. Cylindrical lightboxes commissioned by Lindsay Marks displayed content from creatives participating… -
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BIOS Zone 6: The Mobile Portal Unit
The Mobile Portal Unit is a work by Kim Newall, designed to perform, converse with and disrupt the lab using a signals and code. The unit connects Te Tai Tokerau to parallel…
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