Artist Statement

Madoka Wada is a Japanese interdisciplinary artist living in the United States. She draws on her multicultural background, interactivity, whole-body engagement, and a range of media, from traditional feminine crafts and children’s toys to embedded microcontrollers. She continues the challenges of combining these elements to create magic with others. Her work draws inspiration from her everyday experiences as an immigrant woman of color and a new parent. She highlights such marginalized identities through autoethnographic approaches that connect her stories with larger contexts. By combining interactivity with autoethnography, she extends the celebration of her communities’ beauty, uniqueness, and achievements. She has been practicing a variety of visual languages, including drawing, painting, and digital media.