Sandy Ma is an emerging multidisciplinary artist and educator of mainland Chinese descent working on unceded Ngunnawal/Ngambri Country. Her creative practice weaves together textiles, sound and performance to explore embodied knowledge and playful resistance by querying the role of technology in our lives and how to create joyful interactions with emerging technologies. Sandy’s work is deeply invested in collaboration and research, creating participatory installations that engage public audiences. As an educator, Sandy is committed to fostering interdisciplinary learning spaces that centre play and creativity.

Sandy is currently completing their PhD studies with the ANU Sound, Music, and Creative Computing Lab, where she is working on textile interfaces for musical and artistic expression, as a way of critiquing and articulating human-computer interactions.