Dr Betty Sargeant
PhD (Creative Media, RMIT University), B.A. (Hons), B.Ed
Dr Betty Sargeant is a multi-award-winning, internationally recognised media artist. She is co-creative director and artist with the art-technology duo PluginHUMAN. Betty has exhibited internationally (Asia, Europe, The United States, Australia). She was the Melbourne Knowledge Fellow (2016), was artist-in-residence at the Exertion Games Lab, RMIT University (2017-19); and was creator-in-residence at the Asia Culture Centre (South Korea, 2016-17). Betty’s PhD was ranked top three at the CHASS Prize (2015). Her CV is available on LinkedIn. She has academic publications and regularly speaks at public events. In 2019 Betty represented Australia in a federal government cultural delegation to India focusing on partnership building and future collaborations (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and Asialink 2019). Betty has created media art installations for institutions such as the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (Taiwan, 2018), Questacon (the National Science and Technology Museum, Australia, 2018) and the Asia Culture Centre (South Korea, 2016 & 2017).
Betty’s collaborative work with PluginHUMAN





SELECTION OF RECENT AWARDS
2020 Good Design Award: Winner (with PluginHUMAN)
2019 Rupert Bunny Foundation Visual Art Fellowship: Winner (with PluginHUMAN)
2018 Good Design Award: Winner
2017 Premier’s Design Award: Winner
2016 Melbourne Knowledge Fellow: Winner
2016 Consensus Innovation Award: Winner
2015 PhD Ranked top 3, CHASS Prize
SELECTION OF RECENT ART INSTALLATIONS
2020-21 CAPTURE. Public video art projection. (With PluginHUMAN)
Rupert Bunny Visual Art Fellowship exhibition, City of Port Phillip, AUSTRALIA (pending).
2020 [ I MISS YOUR TOUCH ]. Interactive online video artwork. **Winner: Good Design Award 2020** (With PluginHUMAN)
Federation Square Media Facade, Melbourne AUSTRALIA (2020 – pending).
Be/Hear-Now Festival AUSTRALIA (2020).
ArtPlay, AUSTRALIA (2020).
2020-23 PULSE. Environment-controlled light sculpture. (With PluginHUMAN)
Experimenta Triennial, Experimenta Media Arts, AUSTRALIA (pending exhibition).
2019-20 CONCEAL. Public video art projection. (With PluginHUMAN)
Luminous Festival, AUSTRALIA (2019).
Light Windows Festival, HoloCenter, NYC, USA; Centre for Projection Art, AUSTRALIA (2020).
2019 HIDDEN CITIES. Participatory art installation. (With PluginHUMAN)
C-Lab, TAIWAN.
2019 BREATHE. Environment-controlled media art installation. (With PluginHUMAN)
Melbourne Museum, White Night Festival, AUSTRALIA (2019).
Geelong Performing Arts Centre, Geelong, AUSTRALIA (2019).
Digital Agora Festival, AUSTRALIA (2019).
2019 QUEIMADAS [The Burning]. Experimental light installation.
INPA, Manaus, BRAZIL.
2019 WITHIN. Experimental video artwork.
Dinacon, PANAMA.
2019 THE LOOP. Multi-sensory projection art performance. (With PluginHUMAN)
Melbourne Knowledge Week Festival, Melbourne Meat Market, AUSTRALIA.
2019-23 FRACTAL MOODS. Interactive brain-controlled touring installation. (With PluginHUMAN)
Questacon, AUSTRALIA
2018 DREAM 2.2. Interactive brain-controlled immersive art installation. (With PluginHUMAN)
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts. TAIWAN.
2018 THE WORD TREE. Participatory art installation. (With PluginHUMAN)
Oil Tank Culture Park, STH KOREA.
2018 INTER-DREAM. Interactive multi-sensory art installation. (With PluginHUMAN)
RMIT University, AUSTRALIA.
2017 THE PLAYGROUND. Participatory sculptural light installation. (With PluginHUMAN)
ACT Festival, Asia Culture Centre, SOUTH KOREA (2017).
Ararat Regional Art Gallery, AUSTRALIA (2017).
State Library of Victoria, Melbourne Knowledge Week Festival, AUSTRALIA (2017)
2016 THE STORYTELLING MACHINE. Participatory immersive art installation. **Winner: Good Design Award**
ACT Festival, Asia Culture Centre, SOUTH KOREA (2016).
Geelong After Dark Festival, AUSTRALIA (2017).
Glen Eira City Art Gallery, AUSTRALIA (2018).
SELECTION OF RECENT ART RESIDENCIES
2019 LABVERDE, Artist Immersion in the Amazon, BRAZIL
2019 Digital Naturalism Lab, PANAMA
2018-19 Artists-in-Residence, XGL research lab, RMIT University, AUSTRALIA
2017 Creators Lab, Asia Culture Institute, Asia Culture Centre, SOUTH KOREA
2016 Creators Lab, Asia Culture Institute, Asia Culture Centre, SOUTH KOREA
SELECTION OF PEER REVIEWED ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
Sargeant, B, Dwyer, J, Mueller, F 2020, Investigating Novel BCI Displays that Support Personalised Engagement and Interpersonal Connections, Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), ACM, New York.
Semertzidis, N, Sargeant, B, Dwyer, J, Mueller, F 2019, Towards Understanding the Design of Positive Pre-sleep Through a Neurofeedback Artistic Experience, Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), ACM, New York.
Sargeant, B, Dwyer, J, Mueller, F 2018, Using EEG to Design Embodied Play for the Resting Mind, Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Play Conference, ACM, New York.
Sargeant, B, Dwyer, J, Mueller, F 2018, The Storytelling Machine: A Playful Participatory Automated System Featuring Crowd-Sourced Story Content, Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Play Conference, ACM, New York.
Sargeant, B, Dwyer, J, Mueller, F 2018, Using EEG Technology to Interact with Dream Visualisations: Playful Brainwave Art Workshops, Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Play Conference, ACM, New York.
Sargeant, B, Mueller, F, Dwyer, J 2017, Using HTC Vive and TouchDesigner to Projection-Map Moving Objects in 3D Space: A Playful Participatory Artwork, Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Play Conference, ACM, New York. CHI PLAY’17 ACM, New York.
SELECTION OF RECENT SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
2020 Extra-terrestrial Environments. Artist talk. Environmental Film Festival, AUSTRALIA.
2020 Building Creative Collaborations in the Asia Pacific Region. Asia Link, AUSTRALIA.