About
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Teresa Dillon is an artist and academic, working in the field of digital cultures, the digital public humanities, performance, and spatial practice.
Teresa’s work is engaged with the ethics of how digital tools and media are developed, with a focus on their environmental impact and how the design of such tools shape and control our everyday lives in conscious and unconscious ways.
She explores this through an artistic practice (performance, installation, sound, mixed visual media and moving image, hard- and software experiments), combined with traditional desk-based academic research and the curation of public programs that challenge conventional narratives around innovation with a focus on material and digital obsolescence and discard.
With some of this work informed by her collaborations and partnerships with municipal and senate bodies on topics relating to open data, environmental sensing, and the Right to Repair.
Primary themes within her work deal with repair, care, maintenance and healing cultures, ritual practice in post-human law and hosting as a practice for encountering the other. Key projects including: Repair Acts (2018-), Urban Hosts (2013-), and Elemental Threads (2025-).
In April 2025, she took up the post of Professor of Art, Media and Spatial Practice, at Winchester School of Art (WSA), University of Southampton. At WSA, she convenes the Social Practice Lab, teaches on MA programmes and collaborative modules and develops practice-based research, including supporting PhD studies.