Andrea Rassell is a filmmaker, media artist and interdisciplinary researcher in science art.
Working in nanoart — artforms that engage with nanoscience and nanotechnology — she creates experimental films and moving image installations that explore technological mediation and the multisensory perception of the submolecular realm.
For the project 'Wildly Oscillating Molecules', she turned nanoscientific instrumentation into cinematographic tools, ultimately creating immersive sonic and tactile experiences of the nanoscale environment. Her work has been shown at the New York Imagine Science Festival, Oaxaca FilmFest in Mexico, the New Zealand International Film Festival, White Night in Australia, Sónar+D in Spain and Science Gallery Bengaluru in India. Her work has been recognised by awards and grants from the Australian government, the Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT), the Council of the Humanities and Social Sciences (Australia), St Kilda Film Festival (Australia), Oaxaca FilmFest (Mexico) and National Science Week (Australia).
Andrea was the 2019 recipient of ANAT's Synapse residency, during which she developed a gesture responsive moving image installation in collaboration with the Ian Potter NanoBioSensing Facility. In 2020 Andrea was an artist-in-residence with Taller 30 (San Miguel de Allende, Mexico), and Laboratorio Arte AC, Tecnológico de Monterrey (Mexico), and a member of the ANAT Ideate art + technology program (Australia). She has been a Research Fellow at SymbioticA, University of Western Australia, and is currently a Creative Research Fellow at the Curtin HIVE (Hub for Immersive Visualisation and eResearch). Along with Cassandra Tytler she is the co-founder and facilitator of Moving Image Lab Perth (MILP).