Diane Willow is Assistant Professor in the new media area of Time and Interactivity within the Department of Art. She completed her graduate studies at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT with her thesis and cycle of exhibitions, Gardening the Elements in a Landscape of Technology. Her recent appointment to the University of Minnesota faculty follows a multi-year residency as artist and researcher at the MIT Media Lab.

Diane is a multi-modal artist. Working at the intersection of art, science and technology, she experiments with hybrid media to explore the dynamics of nature, technology and community. Her public installations, interactive environments and evocative objects involve media as eclectic as bioluminescent organisms, embedded computers, found sound and time-lapsed video. She invites people to engage in multi-sensory explorations as participants and choreographers rather than as viewers. She is interested in exploring the subtle ways that we express empathy with one another, with other life forms and in relation to responsive objects, immersive environments and interactive media.