Tabitha Swanson is a designer, creative technologist and artist whose practice includes 3D, animation, augmented reality, digital fashion, graphic design and UX/UI. Her personal work often composes questions rather than answers, and explores thresholds, hauntology, echoes and theology. She describes it as a juxtaposition between archaic symbology and theology and real world experiences. She has also worked with brands including Vogue Germany, Nike and Highsnobiety.
In 2022 Swanson made a commissioned piece for the opening party of Fotografiska Berlin, sculpted in VR and animated and rendered in Blender. That October she curated “Surveyors of Magic” at despace berlin for Refraction. She chose the works from a few hundred pieces by people in the Refraction community, looking for a sense of magic, playfulness and humour. In 2023 she was one of six artists invited to lead a team for HackArtX, Ubisoft’s Web3 hackathon funded by Tezos. Her team’s project SUN BURN was a world made in Unreal Engine that grew more polluted as satellite CO2 data rose. Each increase automatically minted a screenshot of the world as an NFT on Rarible, with proceeds going to reforestation efforts.
