Lalya Gaye
Swiss digital media artist and interaction designer
Lalya Gaye (born 1978) is a Swiss-born digital media artist and interaction designer whose early work was influential in the field of locative media. She lives in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, and she is the founder and director of the international and interdisciplinary digital art practice Attaya Projects.
Early life
Lalya Gaye was born in Geneva, Switzerland in 1978, the daughter of a Senegalese-Malian father and a Swedish mother (both International Labour Office officials), and the youngest of 8 children on her father's side. Her father was trade unionist Abdou Salam Gaye - a key figure in the African Trade Union Movement - and her mother is a feminist human rights activist. She was classically trained as a dancer in her youth and has been DJing since her teens.
Education and career
Mostly active as a digital media artist, Lalya also has a background in engineering, physics and interaction design, and extensive experience in interdisciplinary collaborations, academic and practical teaching, as well as project management.
She received a B.Sc. in Physics at the University of Geneva, Switzerland in 1999, and a M.Sc.Eng. in Electroacoustics at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden in 2002. She first started an art and design research career at the research group Future Applications Lab, Viktoria Institute, in Gothenburg, in Gothenburg, Sweden - a research lab in Interaction Design, Ubiquitous Computing, Mobile Technology and Human-Computer Interaction.
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