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Biography
Katharine Vega @kategenevieve is an artist and researcher at chroma.space, the artist group she founded in 2010. Her projects explore the flexible relationship between the physical and the virtual, the real world and imagined ones. The work brings experimental performance together with immersive and interactive technologies, so that the audience’s perception, bodies and movement become a vital part of the action.
Art and performance work has shown nationally and internationally with recent work at the touring exhibition on female digital artists Technology is Not Neutral 2016-2017, Nimes 2016, London’s Science Museum, Brighton Digital Festival and FACT Liverpool.
Katharine is working on a practice-based PHD at the University of Sussex, researching multi-sensory integration, shared experience in virtual and mixed reality and why humans find it so hard to take in the information about the climate crisis. She has taught on digital art, creative media and animation at the Universities of Sussex and Brighton and run numerous open workshops for all ages.
About the company
chroma.space is an artists group creating work that combines performance and narrative with immersive interactivity. Inspired by cybernetics and a sense of the deep connection between mental, social and environmental ecology, projects collaborate across disciplines, bringing in diverse perspectives from dance to architecture, magic to neuroscience, social change to mathematics.
The creative work invites people to move out of their comfort zone and into fresh terrain and the audience’s perception, bodies and movement are vital to the action. chroma.space runs open labs, public events and workshops on the potentials that improvisation, creative technologies and open source culture have for transforming how we communicate, act together and receive information about the earth.
Media & interviews
Spike Art Quarterly
Virtual Reality work is featured in “Dreaming Awake at the End of Time” in Spike Art Quarterly.
Routeledge book
Katharine Vega has a chapter in the newly released Routeledge book Intersecting Art and Technology in Practice: Techne/Technique/Technology – edited by Camille Baker and Kate Sicchio. See this link
Digital Weekender
See this link
Arts Technologica
Aired 2015 on BBC radio. Interview with KG about Virtual Reality practice and with artists James Bridle, Ben Vickers, Thomson and Craighead and animation visionary David OReilly.
Crossing Borders at Siobhan Davies Dance
Frank Bock's curated program of talks: KG talks about Neuroscience, Embodiment and Sharing Interiority
TEDxBrighton
Art to Explore Consciousness
Of the Spheres Special episode
BBC Click, September 2013
Reasons to Be Creative: Digital Conference (Speaker)
Brighton Dome, UK. Sep 2010
Selected Performances & Exhibitions
Trust: Sonic Experience (Collaborating artist with Toby Gifford) Sensory Ecology, Gympie Regional Gallery, June 2017
Seachange Prototype Performance (Collaborating artist with Prof David Rudrauf) Flux Laboratory, Geneva, Switzerland. May 2017
Trust: Sonic Experience (Collaborating artist with Toby Gifford) Technology is Not Neutral, Phoenix Gallery & Watermans Arts, London, UK. September 2016 - January 2017
Trust: Mixed Reality (Artist / Director) Digital Weekender, Watermans Arts, London, UK. November 2016
Trust: Sonic Experience (Collaborating artist with Toby Gifford) NIMES, Brisbane, Australia, July 2016
Of the Spheres (Artist / Director) The Crawick Multiverse, Dumfries, Scotland, June 2016
Cascade (Artist) ONCA Brighton and Art COP21, UK and Paris, December 2015
Transmission (Co-Director with Rachel Blackman) Liminal, November 2015
Byzantium ( Artist collaboration with Paul Hayes ) Commission for “Libidinal Circuits” Conference, FACT, Liverpool, June - July 2015
Conjunction (Artist / Director) Brighton Beach, March 2015
Transmute (Curator & Producer with Rachel Blackman) Phoenix Gallery, September 2014
Liminal: Audio Visual Live Show for “The Acid” (Co-Director w creative technologist Giani Fabricio) Touring Europe and America 2014 - 2015
Gather (Artist / Director) New Sublime Exhibition, Brighton Digital Festival, September 2013
Heliosphere (Artist / Director) Brighton Fringe, Brighton, May 2013
Terminus (Artist / Director) Final Light, Phoenix Gallery, December 2012
Threshold (Artist) Light Night, Oxford Town Hall, October 2012
Impulse (Artist / Director) 16th annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Brighton Dome, Brighton, July 2012
Latent Heart (Artist / Director) Konnecting Gestures, Artaud Forum 2, Brunel University, London, March 2012
NO PLACE (Artist / Director) Embassy Court, UK for the White Night Festival, Brighton and Hove, Oct 2011 Camp Bestival Finale: Animation Projections (Artist / Director) Lulworth Castle, UK, July 2011, 2012, 2013 Video Vortex Public Installation Komiza Town Square, Croatia, August 2011
Dream Machine (Creator / Co-director) Marlborough House, Brighton, UK for the White Night Festival 2010 Encephalo//Graphic (Artist / Director) Ropetackle Arts, UK, for the Art of LIfe Science Festival, October 2010 Future Machine (Creator / Co-director) Unitarian Church, Brighton, UK for the White Night Festival 2009
Happenings
Between Worlds Facebook link
Transmute this link
Final Light Vimeo link
Workshops
Seeing Differently, The Eyes of Night Facebook Link
Hacking Reality: the future of communication Workshop on communication networks, VR & perception Workshop led at Phoenix Brighton & Watermans Arts 2016
Feeling Sensing Perceiving Workshop on sense-responsive technology and performance Workshop led w Rachel Blackman at Phoenix Brighton 2014
Feeling Sensing Perceiving Facebook link
Open Sourcing the Heart Workshop on Bio-sensing in performance. Workshop led w Ian Winters, Phoenix Gallery & Lab for the Recently Possible, 2013
Selected Talks & Panels
Sensing Potential
Open Senses, The Trampery, London May 2017
Facebook link
Terra Incognita Residency Talk Final Session at the NCCR Affective Sciences Conference http://www.affective-sciences.org/cisa2017/
SITE SESSIONS: ART, SCIENCE AND THE TRUTH Site Gallery, Sheffield, April 2017
Hacking Reality https://archive.org/details/33C3-Hacking-Reality Chaos Computer Club, Hamburg 2017
The Pathways Project Copenhagen September 2016 Facebook link
In touch with reality See here Wellcome Trust, London October 2016
Balance-Unbalance International Conference 2016 in Manizales, Colombia | Virtual Panel Youtube link
Byzantium (CHROMA Talk) FACT LAB, Liverpool June 2015
Artist’s Story (Talk) Fabrica Gallery, April 2015
Balance Unbalance Co-convener of “Choreographies of attention and control: biosensors, networks and embodiment in installation and performance” Arizona State University, Arizona 2015
International Symposium on Electronic Art 2014 Round Table Co-convener of “Choreographies of attention and control: biosensors, networks and embodiment in installation and performance” Zayed University, Dubai, Oct 2014
Toward a Science of Consciousness 2014 (Poster presentation) University of Arizona, Arizona. April 2014. Funded by an AHRC RTSG grant
CHROMA Artist’s Presentation at New Sublime, UK. September 2013
Of The Spheres: CHROMA Artists Talk, Phoenix Gallery, UK. Sept 2013
Art and the Scientific Study of Consciousness panel (Producer / Speaker presenting paper An Artist’s Residency at the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science) ASSC Expo, June 2013 http://pulse-project.org/node/466
Mediamorphosis (Producer / Chair of session: Listening to the Body: from spectacle to experience: new strategies for bio-sensors in performance today) University of Sussex, May 2013
Remote Encounters (Speaker presenting paper Staging Subjectivity: Neuroscience, Embodiment, and the virtual) University of Glamorgan, Cardiff, April 2013
SCANZ 2013 (Speaker presenting paper: Latent Dimensions: Neuroscience, Embodiment and the environment) University of New Plymouth, New Zealand. Jan 2013
CHROMA Artist in Residence Presentation, Blast Theory, UK. December 2012
PAL Movement and Meaning Symposium (Speaker w Genevieve Maxwell presenting: Falling Through Myself) London November 2012
CEP 2012: Neurophenomenology (Poster presentation) Bristol UK. Sep 2012
Round table session: Critical Performance Technologies (Speaker) Konnecting Gestures, Brunel University, UK. March 2012
Spectacular Bodies (Speaker) Catlyst Club, Brighton, UK. December 2011
Staging Illusion (Speaker presenting paper Give Me Your Hand: Staging the Illusion of the Self) Sussex University, UK. December 2011
Cinematic Cities Panel Discussion (Producer / Chair) Cinecity: Brighton Film Festival, UK. Nov 2011
Pecha Kucha (Speaker) Brighton Digital Festival, UK. Sept 2011
Virtual Futures (Speaker presenting paper Presence, Performance and the Virtual) Warwick University, UK. June 2011
Lablife at Microwave Festival Hong Kong, November 2011
Arts and Medicine Symposium (Speaker) Brighton and Sussex Medical School, UK, May 2011
British Shorts Lichtspielklub festival Sputnik Kino, Berlin, Germany. Jan 2011
Animating the Mind Screening. Curated programme and chaired talks on experimental animation communicating non normative mental states, BANG Network, Brighton, UK. Nov 2010
Residencies and Working Visits
Residency at May 2016 Atlantic Center for the Arts, Florida
CHROMA residency & homestay with the Leweton Community, Vanuatu Leweton Community, Luganville, Vanuatu March 2016
CHROMA, residents at ONCA during “Festival of Climate Ideas” ONCA, Brighton Nov-Dec 2015
CHROMA, residents in the FACT Lab during “Build your Own” FACT, Liverpool June-July 2015
CHROMA and Stillpoint residency at Cove Park 2015 Cove Park, Scotland June 2015
Residency at Steelgrass 2014 Kauai, Hawaii, Nov 2014
Residency at SCANZ 2013 New Plymouth, New Zealand. Jan 2013
CHROMA Residency at Blast Theory, UK. October - November 2012
Artist in Residence at the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science Funded by Arts Council England and Performance Arts Labs, Jan - Sep 2012
PAL: Movement & Meaning Lab bursary w Genevieve Maxwell to develop “Falling Through Myself” Movement and technology workshop at the Sackler Centre
DACS Open: Post-digital Jan - April 2012 Invited participant for workshops from Design and Artists Copyright Society (DACS)
Act Otherwise at Blast Theory Invited participant and speaker as part of PARN (Physical and Alternate Reality Narratives) EU Culture Fund Project, March 2012 / 2013 / Feb 2014
Visiting Artist, Embassy Court 2011 Funded by Bluestorm Ltd. and Brighton and Hove City Council. 2011
Video Vortex Summer Workshop, Island of Vis, Croatia Erasmus-funded, August 2011
Laboratory Life Art Science Collaboration, Lighthouse, Brighton Funded by The Arts Catalyst and The Wellcome Trust, Feb- March 2011