Clea T. Waite, Ph.D. (aka Clea von Chamier-Waite) is an internationally exhibited intermedia artist, scholar, engineer, and experimental filmmaker investigating the material poetics emerging at the intersection of art, science, and technology. She is Associate Professor of Computational Media and Arts at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), where she leads the Expanded Cinema and Science-Art research group. She is a pioneer artist of immersive, cinematic works engaging embodied perception, dynamic composition, and sensual interfaces – as well as one inter-species collaboration with several hundred tropical spiders. Her projects examine climate change, water ecology, astronomy, particle physics, feminism, and popular culture.