Lynette Wallworth

Australian artist/filmmaker Lynette Wallworth is renowned for creating profoundly empathetic works while pushing the boundaries of emerging technologies. She works primarily in immersive environments including 360 film, virtual reality, interactive video, digital full dome and in feature documentary.

Her work reflects on connections between people and the natural world and engages viewers in the consideration of fragile human states of grace.

Wallworth has received multiple international awards for her work including two Emmys. In 2017 she received a News & Documentary Emmy® Award for Outstanding New Approaches in Documentary for her Virtual Reality narrative Collisions (2016) . In 2019 she received a second Emmy® in the same category for her XR work Awavena (2018).

Wallworth's works have shown at venues and festivals across the world, including the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the American Museum of Natural History, the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, ACMI, the Smithsonian; Venice Film Festival, IDFA, CPHDOX, London Film Festival and Sundance Film Festival among others.

Wallworth is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Augmented and Virtual Reality and Director of the Forum’s New Narratives Lab. She is Artist in Residence at the AustralianHuman Rights Institute, UNSW and at AFTRS and she currently sits on the board of The Sundance Institute.