Walter Wright is a multimedia improviser. Pre-recorded imagery is de/reconstructed on his video performance system, the Video Shredder, creating unique and stunning visuals. He plays the analog synthesizer. He has a Doepfer, a Little Boy Blue, and a touch-sensitive BPNG. He has immersed himself in music, video, and dance improvisation. In 2003, he enrolled in Goddard College's MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts program, graduating in 2007. He focused on improvisation as a way of being present in/to the world.

In the early 1970s, he was one of the first video animators. At Computer Image Corp he animated letters, words, and titles for the Children's Television Workshop. He was a video animator for Ed Emshwiller's Thermogenesis and Scapemates, aired by WNET's Artists Television Workshop. Scapemates was the first computer graphics video nominated for an Emmy Award (1971), and Wright showed his work at the first computer art conference at the Kitchen (NYC, 1973). In 1973-76, he pioneered video performance while touring public access centers, colleges, and galleries with the Paik/Abe video synthesizer.

Wright has also developed software and hardware for artists: the Video Shredder, a desktop video processor for the TARGA2000; and Movies, a video optical printer for Truevision's TARGA+ frame buffer. He assisted in the design and construction of voltage-controlled video modules at the Experimental Television Center, and has assembled two Serge Modular Music Systems. Currently, he is working with Max/MSP and softVNS to develop motion-triggered sound and video performance.

He is a co-founder of 119 Gallery, the first digital art gallery on the World Wide Web, reopened in 2005 in Lowell, MA.