Dr Betty Sargeant

PhD, BA, B.Ed.

Creator-in-Residence
Exertion Games Lab
Centre for Game Design Research
RMIT University
Research Expertise
Digital Design, Media Art, Digital Media, Technology, Technology & Innovation, Innovation, Storytelling
Biography
Dr Betty Sargeant is an award-winning artist and designer. Her work focuses on how art and technology can help people be more socially and physically engaged.Betty is currently artist-in-residence at the Exertion Games Lab (RMIT University, Australia), where she is developing a series of new media artworks. Betty was the Melbourne Knowledge Fellow (2015-17); she was artist-in-residence at the Asia Culture Centre (Korea, 2016); and she won the 2016 Consensus Innovation Award in recognition of her progressive digital technology work.Betty most recent work The Playground was exhibited at the ACT Festival (South Korea, 2017). A prototype of The Playground was featured at Melbourne Knowledge Week and in conjunction with the Ararat Regional Art Gallery (2017).

As a part of her Melbourne Knowledge Fellowship Betty developed The Storytelling Machine. This interactive media artwork had its debut at the Asia Culture Centre (Korea, 2016). The Storytelling Machine instantly transforms the public’s drawings into animated  characters that roam video footage that is projected onto exhibition walls. The work was also exhibited at Geelong After Dark in May 2017.

In 2015 Betty was the concept developer and scriptwriter on a virtual reality location-based game for the automotive company Audi, Europe. She was the artistic director of the Melbourne Moomba Parade, a feature of Australia’s largest community arts event. Her work has been exhibited in Asia, Europe, the United States and Australia. Her award-winning story app How Far is Up? is available on the App Store.

Betty’s PhD was ranked top three at the CHASS Prize (Council of Humanities Arts and Social Science, 2015). She has academic publications and regularly speaks at public events.

For more information visit: www.bettysargeant.com

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Awards and Citations

  • Winner: Victorian Premier’s Design Award – Digital Design (2017)
  • Winner: Consensus Innovation Award – in recognition of progressive digital design work (2016)
  • Finalist: Victorian Premier’s Design Awards (2014)

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