Debbie Ding

Assistant Professor, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)

Profile

Debbie Ding is an artist-scholar working across the intersection of artistic research, technology and game studies – with professional experience as design educator, interaction designer and game designer-developer. She is recognised for her artistic work with virtual reality, game design, data visualisation and digital mapping as a contemporary artist and was certified as Unity Associate Game Developer in 2020. Her work was shortlisted for the President’s Young Talents 2018 and Impart Art Awards 2020 and is collected by the Australian War Memorial and Singapore Art Museum.

Notable exhibitions include Ars Electronica Features, “Radical Gaming” at HeK Basel, “Worldbuilding” at Julia Stoschek Foundation Dusseldorf, “Wikicliki” at Singapore Art Museum, “Radio Malaya” at NUS Museum, “Construction in Every Corner” at NTU Museum, Kochi Biennale and the Singapore Biennale. Scholarships include the NTU Research Scholarship and NAC Postgraduate Scholarship (Visual Art), and funded residencies with Australian War Memorial (Canberra), Dena Foundation (Paris) and 136 Goethe Lab (Goethe-Institut Singapore). Her practice-based PhD research explores ludogeography: psychogeography in virtual worlds.