Tega Brain

Tega Brain is an Australian-born artist and environmental engineer whose work examines issues of ecology, data systems and infrastructure. She has created wireless networks that are coupled to natural phenomena, systems for obfuscating personal data, and an online smell-based dating service.

Tega has exhibited at the Vienna Biennale for Change and the Guangzhou Triennial, as well as at museums like the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin. Her work has been widely discussed in the press including in Art Forum, the New Yorker, Art in America, The Atlantic, NPR, Al Jazeera and The Guardian and in art and technology blogs like the Creators Project and Creative Applications. Tega has given talks and workshops at museums and festivals like EYEO, TedxSydney and the Sonar Festival and been awarded fellowships at Data & Society, Eyebeam, GASP Public Art Park and the Australia Council for the Arts.

Tega is an Assistant Professor of Integrated Digital Media, New York University. Her first book, Code as Creative Medium, is co-authored with Golan Levin and published with MIT Press. She also runs the Learning to Teach conference series in partnership with the Processing Foundation and the School for Poetic Computation.