Professor Jane Tingley has been recognized with the 2025 James Bailey Award for Foresta Inclusive: (ex)tending towards, an interactive and multi-sensory installation that translates real-time data from a living tree into light, sound and scent.
The work was created in collaboration with a multidisciplinary team of artists and programmers and was exhibited at the NAISA North Media Arts Centre earlier this year.
About Jane Tingley
Jane Tingley is an Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Computational Arts at AMPD. Her studio work combines traditional studio practice with new media tools - and spans responsive/interactive installation, performative robotics, and telematically connected distributed sculpture. Her current artistic trajectory is interdisciplinary in nature and spans the intersection of art, science and technology. Professor Tingley's work explores the creation of spaces and experiences that push the boundaries between science and magic, interactivity and playfulness, and offer an experience to the viewer that is accessible both intellectually and technologically.
Chair, Department of Computational Arts
She has participated in exhibitions and festivals in the Americas, the Middle East, Asia, and Europe, including Glasgow and Paris. She received the Kenneth Finkelstein Prize in Sculpture in Manitoba, the first prize in the iNTERFACES – Interactive Art Competition in Porto, Portugal, and has received support from a number of funding agencies, the provincial arts councils, the Canada Council for the arts, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Learn more about Professor Tingley's award on NAISA's website.