BIO

Amanda Bennetts is an Australian early career new media and installation artist working at the intersection of art, science, and technology. Living with a progressive neurological disease and a rare muscular condition, Bennetts uses her own body as both subject and system, transforming lived experience into works that interrogate care, health, and wellness through the lenses of crip theory, algorithmic critique, and speculative design. Her practice merges clinical and spa aesthetics, haptic and sonic environments, biodata visualisation, and custom-built technologies to question how bodies are optimised, surveilled, and reimagined within digital and medical infrastructures.

 

Bennetts’ work frequently engages with collaborative, cross-disciplinary processes, bringing together data scientists, performers, and technologists to develop immersive installations and performances. Projects often employ biodata-driven systems, algorithmic interfaces, and pseudo-ritual frameworks to critique the commodification of wellness and explore radical forms of patient-led care.

 

She is an awarded artist with over 20 group exhibitions and notable solo shows at Brisbane’s Outer Space (2024), Sydney’s Firstdraft (2024), and Brisbane’s Metro Arts (2023). She won the 2022 Best In Show Visual Arts Award following her Bachelor of Fine Art from the Queensland College of Art (QCA), and was a finalist in the prestigious 2023 Churchie National Emerging Art Prize at the Institute of Modern Art (IMA), Brisbane.

 

Internationally, Bennetts has exhibited and developed work through programs including the Ars Electronica x IT: U FOUNDING LAB Summer School and Fall Term, CTM Festival’s MusicMakers Hacklab (Berlin), and Ars Electronica Festival 2024, presenting projects such as Untuning Rituals and Do Algorithms Care?. In 2024, the Sydney Opera House and Accessible Arts commissioned her short film Carve Crevice From Grace, which premiered at the Sydney Opera House in November 2024.