Programme Director of Digital Media Design, Victoria University of Wellington (Wellington)

Marcia Lyons is a world-leading and highly awarded Multi Media Artist, and internationally recognized innovation expert in digital media arts and pedagogy.

As the Developing Programme Director of Digital Media Design at the Victoria University of Wellington, Marcia is responsible for creating the Digital Media Design Bachelor, Masters and PHD programmes.

Formerly, Marcia was the Creator of the Digital Media Fine Arts Program at Cornell University, one of North America’s most prestigious universities.

For more than 15 years, Marcia has been lecturing across the US and Europe, and creating customized e-broadcasting workshops for universities including: L’Ecole du Louvre, Stanford University, Texas A&M, School of Visual Arts, and now Wellington’s Victoria University.

Marcia is the Founder and Producer of C-M.TV, a glocal media content network. As a multi-media artist, Marcia lived and worked in NYC from 1986-2005; her work has been broadly exhibited in the U.S. and Europe.

Marcia is the recipient of the Rome Prize (1996-97); Jules Guerin Fellow Visual Arts; The Banff Center for the Arts Residency for US in Gaming (1997), National Endowment for the Arts (1994), and two Innovative Teaching Awards for Tele-present Broadcasting and Media Arts. Her ongoing research includes: Sensory Broadcasting, and ‘live’ feed database aesthetics.
 
Marcia Lyons is an “International Observer” at X|Media|Lab Wellington.