Andrea Cooper is an interdisciplinary artist based in Newfoundland and Labrador whose practice spans performance, video, animation, and virtual reality. Rooted in embodied performance, her work explores the intersection of ecology, technology, and identity — examining how digital systems and natural environments shape isolation, memory, and belonging. Through the merging of human presence with constructed digital worlds, Cooper creates immersive environments that hover between the real and the imagined, reflecting on transformation, extinction, and the future of the planet.

Her video Strange Things premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival’s Forum Expanded and received the National Film Board of Canada’s Emerging Filmmaker Award at the Images Festival in Toronto. Her subsequent work Honey also premiered at Berlinale Forum Expanded, further establishing her reputation for blending performance, narrative, and experimental form.

Her virtual reality project GONE premiered at the Fine Arts Film Festival in Venice, California; was presented at FIVARS (Festival of International Virtual and Augmented Reality) in Toronto; received an Honourable Mention from the Digital Arts Zurich Awards (DAZ) in Switzerland; and was previewed at SXSW in Austin and the Annecy International Animation Festival in France.

In June 2025, GONE was adapted into a 360° dome experience in London through a partnership between the Fine Arts Film Festival, Women in Immersive Technologies (WITT), and Igloo Vision. In 2026, Cooper will present GONE at the Royal College of Art’s Immersive Acts Symposium: Disrupting the Frame by Otherwise Narratives in London, UK.

Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including The Rooms (St. John’s), the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (Toronto), and Extra City Kunsthal (Antwerp). She holds a Master of Visual Studies from the University of Toronto and continues to advance immersive storytelling at the intersection of performance and emerging technology.