Shira Wachsmann is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher working across moving image, installation, collage, drawing, digital, and electronic arts. Her practice takes a poetic, sensuous form–often multi-threaded, non-linear, and collective–addressing contemporary issues such as human-interspecies-machinic co-evolution and war trauma. Her recently completed practice-led Ph.D., Landscape, War Trauma, Explosion: Re-membering the Moment Before, delves into the complexities of war trauma. Internationally exhibited, Wachsmann’s contemporary artworks include a mix of technologies and materials; filming/printing, animation, text, AR development, alongside various forms of sonic intelligence (incorporating ultrasonic sound and other multi-modal data inputs). Together with Dr. John Wild, she is the co-founder of Symbiotic Intelligence—rethinking AI through mycelium. In 2022, Wachsmann co-founded (with Dr. Ameera Kawash) the groundbreaking  Orbital Bloom, a sophisticated data-driven work that enables individual users to emotionally connect and impact their environmental spaces.  Currently teaches digital storytelling on the Digital Direction programme, at the Royal College of Art, London UK. Wachsmann has participated as an invited artist and speaker worldwide, including most recently in the UK/EU, the Middle East, and the global South.