PlantLab Interview: Dr Tracey Benson

Dr Tracey Benson lives in Australia and is visiting PlantLab as our international resident artist. Her local site is in Yarun (Bribie) Island, Brisbane. Tracey and her organisation TreeCreate are partners of AwhiWorld and are collaborating on a series of different projects starting with this residency.

Tracey is an Australian-based interdisciplinary artist, UX designer, researcher and founder of Treecreate. She is passionate about more-than-human design and bridging the links between Western thinking and experiential and interconnected knowledge.

Tracey works at the nexus of media arts, digital transformation, ecological systems and citizen empowerment. Her work focuses on belonging, place, well-being and pro-environmental behaviour change. Walking is central to her creative practice of exploring locative and augmented media tools to engage audiences to see their places with fresh eyes.

Her work has been extensively presented internationally in media arts festivals and exhibitions. With a passion for understanding different knowledge systems and engaging audiences, she often collaborates with Indigenous communities and Elders, historians, technologists and scientists. She lectures internationally and holds adjunct positions at the University of Canberra, the More than Human Lab at Victoria University, Wellington, NZ, the eXtended Reality Collective at Charles Sturt University and is an Advisor for the TransArt Institute.