Since 2015, MOTHER TREE has been working in Washington State, USA. Co-founder Dr. Vicki Moulder started the interdisciplinary design group as a way to continue her own art practice and support not-for-profit organizations. The group combines academic research and community art practice to create the stories, exhibits and activities that help transform perspectives, build capacity and create unique opportunities for engagement.
ORGANIZING MEMBERS
Dr. Victoria Moulder is an artist, researcher, and imaginative advocate for a better world. She is a pioneer in the field of community art practice and has co-produced events with not-for-profit organizations since 1988 in Europe, Canada, the United States and Asia. Moulder holds a PhD, School of Interactive Art + Technology, Simon Fraser University, as well as a BFA, Emily Carr University in British Columbia, Canada.
Michael Heidt is an affiliated researcher at GeDIS. He graduated in computer-science from Philipps University of Marburg with a thesis on self-organising cloud systems. Michael’s current research focus is interactive systems: He has built interactice artefacts for deployment in cultural environments such as museums, at public events, in gallery spaces, and other sites of cultural communication. Michael is especially interested in how to embed practices of computing and code-making into interdisciplinary networks of cooperation within the field of culture.
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