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Eugenie Lee

Sydney,
Australia
Focus area: Augmented Reality, Sculpture, Spacial, Biology, Body, Self, Computer Science, Engineering, STEAM, Pedagogy, Education, Illustration, Painting, 2D Forms, Medicine, Medicine, Physiology, Heath, Wearables,Connected self, Psychology, Cognitive Studies, Performance Art, Theater Studies

Eugenie Lee is a Sydney-based, emerging Korean-Australian interdisciplinary artist with a conceptual focus on her lived experience with persistent pain. Experimentation and collaboration with pain scientists and researchers, who investigate ways in which technologies can assist in pain research, are an important conceptual underpinning for her interdisciplinary art practice which includes participatory performances using technologies, installations, sculptures and paintings.

By appropriating the latest scientific concepts, and lab materials including VR and electronics, and reconfiguring them for non-therapeutic uses, Lee creates holistic pain experiences (socio-psycho-bio) as creative outcomes. She works closely with researchers and follows their protocols and ethics notwithstanding using their techniques in ways they were not originally designed for. Her residencies with the pain scientists, Body In Mind at the University of South Australia, and Centre for Pain IMPACT at Neuroscience of Research Australia (NeuRA) were a major stimulus to her artistic development and collaborations across art, science and technology.

Eugenie’s notable curated exhibitions include the 'Big Anxiety Festival' at the University of NSW; the inaugural show 'MOD.IFY: It’s not what you know', together with the world-renown pain scientist Prof Lorimer Moseley at the Museum Of Discovery (MOD.) in South Australia; and the touring exhibition 'The Patient: The Medical Subject in Contemporary'. Eugenie is a recipient of major grants and residency awards including 'Career Development Grants' Australia Council of the Arts, Create NSW’s '360 Vision: Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality Development Initiative', 'Synapse Residency' at Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT), and 'Amplify Your Arts' Accessible Arts.

She is an active pain advocate and is an ambassador for Pelvic Pain Foundation Australia and a member of the prestigious Global Alliance of Partners for Pain Advocacy Task Force (GAPPA) for the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP). Eugenie graduated with Honours from Sydney College of the Arts in Australia 2012.