Professor Angie Abdilla began studying film and working as a film-maker, including documentaries and video art.
In 2005, Angie Abdilla was curator of the progam, Short Black Films screened at Barnett Long Room, Customs House, Circular Quay, for NAIDOC Week.
She later refocused on cybernetics and creative technologies, including a position as Cybernetic Imagination Resident at ANU. She is the founder and Director of Old Ways, New, which created the methodology, Country Centered Design.
She co-founded the Indigenous Protocols and Artificial Intelligence working group (IP//AI), and has been a member of the Scientific Council of the Association of AI Ethicists (AAIE), CSIRO Data61 Advisory Group, the National AI Centre Think Tank, and the Global Futures Council on Artificial Intelligence for Humanity (as part of the World Economic Forum in 2022).