Alysha Claire Creighton (b. 1986 Vancouver, Canada) is an intermedia artist from Vancouver, BC. She holds a BA in Visual Art from Trinity Western University and an MFA in Drawing and Intermedia from the University of Alberta. Her performance-based practice draws on her background in dance and movement, exploring moments of physical, social and psychological tension between people though drawing, photography and video.
Recent projects include her site-specific project Waiting Room at the Bleeding Heart Art Space, her solo exhibition Proximities at the Art Gallery of St. Albert, and a video installation as part of the 2013 Alberta Biennial. She teaches Drawing and Intermedia courses at the University of Alberta and also works as a lead artist at the Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts where she assists artists with developmental disabilities in bringing their ideas to life through digital animation.

During her Residency in Berlin, she plans to move into new territory, as she further develops her practice to include performance explicitly. Through her work she investigates the emerging quality of connection as it is formed and informed by the technologies that we use and which also use us. Asking questions such as: What is the texture of nearness? Is a table not a technology that connects us? She seeks to unravel the qualities of nearness – ways of being and becoming together. In so doing, she creates space for a subtle ethics of proximity to emerge; one that acknowledges our enmeshment with our technologies and one another. Her work is very driven by viewer interaction and experience, and so for this specific project she will by the use of screens, video and performance open a space to consider the ways that technologies intervene in our lives.