Teresa Dillon

Teresa Dillon is a curator, researcher and a self-taught artist based in Berlin. Originally trained as a social and educational psychologist. Drawing on methodologies from psychology, social science and the performing arts, her work reflects on our cybernetic attachments and the influence of techno-civic systems on our everyday lives and personal relationships. Recent works include In Your Aerial (2019), a project in which the inheritance and heritage of a community Internet network is established, and the text Liquid Loss: Learning to Mourn Our Companion Species and Landscapes (2019). Since 2013 Dillon has organized and hosted Urban Knights, a program of talks and workshops that promotes and provokes alternatives to city living. In 2018 she established the Repair Acts network which focuses on practice and scholarship relating to repair, care and maintenance cultures. She currently holds the post of Professor of City Futures at the School of Art and Design, UWE Bristol, where she leads on projects relating to restorative and healing futures, surveillance histories, data as matter and urban commoning. From 2012-2013 she was curator and course coordinator at the Science Gallery, Dublin, where she curated HACK-THE-CITY, developed various urban labs and taught the science-artcurriculum. Her works has been shown internationally at various festivals and exhibitions (Transmediale, Ars Electronica, ISEA, Pixelache, Enter_) and she has published widely on technology, creativity and learning. Teresa holds a PhD in psychology from The Open University, UK and is currently a Humboldt Fellow at UdK and TU, Berlin.