Deborah Lawler-Dormer has been the Executive Director of MIC Toi Rerehiko (formally the Moving Image Centre) since 1995. In that time she has worked to promote and support a dynamic and growing culture of media-arts practice in Auckland and New Zealand. She has programmed, curated, staged and managed numerous film, video and digital media shows to support environments of innovation in which the fusion of art and technology are developed and nurtured. She has traveled
internationally to Europe, the US, the Middle East and Australia
staging projects involving New Zealand digital and video art practice. She has variously been a curator and researcher at Auckland City Art Gallery; City Gallery, Wellington; Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand and Artspace.