Career
Kate is currently the head of the Master’s Convergent Media program at the University of Western Sydney and will this year work in residence with the influential contemporary media dance company Blast Theory, on an interactive virtual universe
installation Eclipse, on the live event Bloodbath, and has completed work for the Bundanon Trust and the Australian Centre for Virtual Art. Most recently Kate has worked on the Wayfarer project – an augmented reality game and participatory performance, the sub_scape series (with Sarah Waterson), and the Life after War suite of works with Ross Gibson – including the Bystander project – an innovative take on the potential for a responsive/generative narrativity.
While its difficult to characterise Kate’s work as the expression of an overarching concern, most of her works explore the potential for frameworks of action and interaction to emerge out of, and then feed into the dynamism of complex systems. New and interactive media becomes a vehicle for exploring, invoking, disorientating, the generative and or affective potential of these frameworks and the social and subjective states they imply.
Recent multimedia exhibitions include the Life After Wartime suite with Ross Gibson, the most recent outcome being the 5 channel interactive media installation Bystander (funded by the Australian Research Council and The Nelson Meers Foundation) exhibited at The Performance Space@Carriage Works in August 2007 plus other CDROMS, live performance and a print exhibition exhibited since 1999; Wayfarer, a series of locative art events with Martyn Coutts held at The Performance Space@Carriage Works in September 2007(funded by the InterArts and Theatre Board Australia Council) and The Arts Centre, Melbourne; The Uncertainty Principle, a photographic exhibition at the Australian Centre for Photography in Oct 2007 and new video installation exhibited Belfast 2009.
2011 – In the last 12 months I have exhibited several new works, including “Spirit Patrol” a new video in the Life After Wartime suite with Ross Gibson, at the Plimsoll Gallery Hobart; “Bloodbath” a live event with Roller Derby, wiimote and VJ at Sydney’s Hordern Pavilion with Linda Dement, and invited artists Nancy Mauro-Flude, Sarah Waterson and Francesca da Rimini; “Travels In Beautiful Desolation”, a video flythrough of the fictional and speculative galaxy Gondawanna, at DreamWorlds Beijing and regional China in 2010. An old but favourite piece “The Coal Cliff” made in Super 8 with Kurt Brereton was exhibited as part of an exhibition at Wollongong Regional Gallery. Design and production gigs included the video design for “Ama and Chan”, a new performance work for Urban Theatre Projects Sydney; interactive multimedia design for “Mr Dawes Pronounces Well” stage 2, a live performance in development at Critical Path Sydney with director Kerreen Ely-Harper. I am also consulting multimedia producer to David Clarkson of Stalker Theatre Co for their new work “Encoded” using kinect box and interactive 3d imaging. I’m pleased to be a part of the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority Arts Incubator for 2011 and with a great bunch of other artists we are seeding creative concepts for The Rocks in Sydney. My PhD research on affective flows and affordances is progressing well and I will present it at ISEA Istanbul in September 2011. In the last 12 months I have exhibited several new works, including
