Dr Kristina Mah (born in Manila, Philippines) is an artist, researcher living and working on Gadigal-Wangal land (Sydney), Australia. She is passionate about humanitarianism and environmental stewardship. Her work draws inspiration from ancient wisdom traditions and emphasises embodied ways of knowing and lived experience.
Her creative practice questions notions of self and transformation by exploring relationalities between time, space and bodies. She integrates somatic, contemplative, and movement-based practices as modalities of understanding wisdom and compassion. Her art practice draws on ritual, gesture and movement, cosmology, and mystic symbolism to inform tangible, spatial, and sensory experiences and embodied narratives. Her work combines video, photography, mixed media, and interactive technologies addressing the nature of consciousness and being, agency, and compassion across social, cultural and ecological contexts.
Kristina has a Bachelor of Arts (Philosophy and French Studies) and a Bachelor of Design Computing from The University of Sydney. She completed a year at the College of Fine Arts (now Art and Design) at The University of New South Wales, graduating with first-class honours. In Spring 2023, Kristina graduated from The University of Sydney with a PhD in human-computer interaction. She has published in the Journal of the Association of Computing Machinery, Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI), Interactions Magazine, and top-tier international conferences in human-computer interaction. Her artwork has been exhibited in Australia and Singapore.
Kristina is currently conducting transdisciplinary research at the Design Lab at the University of Sydney and the Centre for Transformative Media Technologies at Swinburne University. Across these two projects, her research aims to more deeply understand transcorporeal empathy and experience of more-than-human contexts.
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