Walter Wright is a video artist, teaches studio art at Lasell College, and is the Director of 119 Gallery.
One of the first video animators, he worked at Computer Image Corporation in the 1970's animating letters and words for The Electric Company. He was an Associate Director at the Kitchen. He left NYC to join the Experimental Televsion Center where he pioneered video performance touring with the Paik/Abe Video Synthesizer. In the 1980's he taught video art, sound art and computer graphics at William James College and Virginia Commonwealth University. In the 1990's he worked as a software engineer for Truevision. He wrote his own performance video system, the Video Shredder. Recently, he began experimenting with Max/MSP and softVNS.
He works with Heather McQuiston, Joe Burgio, and the dadallama Performance Co creating multimedia performances that include electronic music, video, and dance.