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Associate Professor, Early Childhood: Creative Practice and Digital Media, RMIT University

Linda Knight is an artist and academic who specialises in critical and speculative arts practices and methods. Linda devised ‘Inefficient Mapping’ as a methodological protocol for conducting fieldwork in projects informed by ‘post-‘ theories. In her role as Associate Professor at RMIT University, Australia Linda creates transdisciplinary projects across early childhood, creative practice, and digital media. Together with Jacina Leong, Linda is a founding member of the Guerrilla Knowledge Unit, an artist collective that curates interface jamming performances between the public and AI technologies.
Linda has exhibited digitally and physically in Australia, UK, USA, Canada, NZ, and South America and has been awarded arts research grants and prizes with international reach and impact, most recently this includes an Australian Research Council Discovery project that designs novel technologies for framing and enabling young children’s active play.

Website: https://lindaknight.org/
Inefficient mapping IG: @lk_inefficient_urban_maps

Experience

  • –present
    Associate Professor, Early Childhood: Creative Practice and Digital Media, RMIT University

Education

  • 1999 
    University of Wolverhampton, UK, PhD / Art Practice