New Zealand based artist and designer Darryl Fausett explores technological framing of the subject. Her practice utilises interactive participatory performance to lean in on technology and to expose its workings. Our real world every day experience of technology is not reason-able. It is not cerebral. It is bodily. Because technology mediates our experience of the world it creates a space in which power is distributed. In the play between representation of body-as-technology and technology-as-body Fausett foregrounds the all-pervasive influence of technology on individual subjectivity and autonomy. Fausett seeks to perform the body, and to this end any technology, any man-made process or man-made object, is grist for the mill.

Fausett is a long-standing participant in the New Zealand aviation industry and her experience as a pilot underpins her conceptual interest in bodies and machines, their movement within space and across time, and in the rule-based constraints that hold everything together. She holds both New Zealand and Australian Air Transport Pilot licences and has flown ATR72 aircraft domestically for Air New Zealand and Boeing 737 aircraft internationally for Virgin Australia. She is qualified as a senior flying instructor and is endorsed to teach aerobatics, mountain flying and to instruct on multi-engine aircraft. She is currently engaged in promoting the increased participation of women in all technical fields of the industry.

Having originally trained as an professional engineer, Fausett is uniquely positioned to contribute to the discourse surrounding business innovation, design thinking and creativity. She is currently developing a series of workshops aimed at demonstrating how creative practices work to create safe zones for expansive research and exploration. These approaches can spark inspiration, encourage collaboration, and drive the creative thinking that leads to original and innovative outcomes.

Fausett graduated in 1986 with a Bachelor of Engineering (Hons), Mechanical Specialisation, from The University of Auckland, New Zealand. In 2000 she gained a Master Business Administration from Otago University, New Zealand. The MBA programme of study sparked an interest in critical studies and innovation and, in turn, an interest in contemporary conceptual art. In 2012, Fausett graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Hons) from the Elam School of Fine Arts, The University of Auckland, New Zealand. 

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“2012 National Kitchen and Bathroom Association Awards.” Kitchen Trends 28, no. 10 (2012): cover, 76-79, 85, 89.

Auburn, Cat, and Way, Karena. Little Rain. Edited by Darryl Fausett and Renee Liang. Auckland: Sub Strata, c2009. Exhibition Catalogue.

Dryburgh, Emil., et.al. The Spring. Auckland: Elam School of Fine Arts, National Institute of Creative Arts and Industries, The University of Auckland. 2012. Exhibition Catalogue.

Fausett, Darryl. “Valuation of Tatua Cooperative Dairy Company Limited Milksolids Supply Entitlements.” A consulting report submitted for Master of Business Administration. Dunedin: University of Otago, 2001.

Smith, Allan, et.al. editors. Elam 2012: Graduate Work. Auckland: Elam School of Fine Arts, National Institute of Creative Arts and Industries, The University of Auckland, 2013. pp. 22.