Jennifer Stratton

…is an interdisciplinary researcher, artist, educator, thinker and maker. Her work is centered in biophilia, community storytelling, experimental pedagogy, play and the ephemeral magic that happens when light meets surface. She grew up with a strong spirit of exploration as a third culture kid, constantly moving around the globe with her family. For the past several years she has worked in vfx/integrated content production, interactive design and data visualization, while concurrently, teaching documentary and animation workshops. She is interested in creative intersections between scientific research, art, and social landscapes. Her art practice and research blends visual ethnography, ephemeral performance, tactile materials, and sonic signals to explore fragmented identities and evolving estrangements between individuals, communities and the natural world.In 2012 Jennifer was awarded an Embassy Science Fellowship from DOI/the US Department of State. She is an active participant atHASTACand the Speculative Computing (S-1) Lab,and was recently an Artist-in-Residence at the Nicholas School of the Environment’s Marine Lab. She is currently a Research Assistant/Scholar at the Franklin Humanities Institute PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge at Duke University.