Sydney is a Reader in Book History and The Printer, Wai-te-ata Press, Victoria University of Wellington. She focuses on the interdisciplinary study of transnational and cross-cultural book history and print culture in the contexts of the history of empire, history of technology, and the history of reading. Technological convergence is an additional platform for research and practice, bringing both historic and contemporary media into creative conversation though explorations into the digital handmade, generative computer art, and typographically-situated augmented reality experiences. Sydney is also a practising letterpress printer, exhibiting book artist, and designer bookbinder who undertakes creative research commissions at Wai-te-ata Press.

Verb Festival 2022 Appearances:
Changelings and Evolutionary Translation, Sat 5 Nov, 6pm (LitCrawl).