Angie Contini

Angie Contini is an independent experimental multimedia artist and postdoctoral scholar living in Sydney, graduating with a PhD from the University of Sydney in 2018. Her arts practice and research interests include animal ethics, eco-aesthetics, philosophy as theatre, mental health, continental philosophies of existence, and the holistic, pedagogical role of art in daily life. Angie is committed to an interdisciplinary practice that embraces complexity, privileges curiosity, improvisation, and experimentation, affirms the reciprocity between critical thinking and creative expression in all mediums, and forms the ground for a discipline of optimism.