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Kat Austen

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a person, creating multidisciplinary artworks that foster conversations about the environment. Current research #AI #ethics #datacenters and #water
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Kat is a person making multidisciplinary artworks that foster conversations about the environment. Kat melds disciplines and media, creating sculptural and new media installations, performances and participatory work. Austen’s practice is underpinned by extensive research and theory, and driven by a motivation to explore how to move towards a more socially and environmentally just future. by @katausten
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2 years ago
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How To Touch a Dragonfly (2023) Opening 19. October, S-Factory, Seoul How to Touch a Dragonfly's 4m dome is a deconstructed low-resolution screen made of over two thousand hexagonal pixels, created using the traditional Korean paper Hanji, handmade for the exhibition by the Jeonju Millennium Hanji Museum. Exploring insect migration driven by the human re-sculpting of the biosphere, the dome creates an immersive visual and sonic environment in which the visitor encounters the world through the eyes of dragonflies. “It used to be a game when we were kids, we would catch the dragonflies in our hands and hold them. Their wings feel like paper like the Hanji in my grandparents doors. Crinkly but strong. You just don’t see them so much anymore.” How do you touch a dragonfly that isn’t there? Artist: Kat Austen Designer: Robin Andersson (RTA Studio) @robintomasandersson Digital Artist: Daniel Hengst @danielhengst_jitterhorse Creative Technologist: Justus von Harten Production Director: Frank Lohmöller Production Manager: Olive Okjoh Han Production Assistance: Hyeonhwa Lee Additional Filming: Sangwon Lee @polytvastri Communications: Pavia Choi Hanji Funding: Jeonju Millenium Hanji Museum (전주천년한지관) @jeonju_hanji_museum Supported by: ZER01NE Creator’s Programme (Hyundai Motor Group) @zer01ne.zone Special thanks: UN FAO KR, GIAHS (Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Site) Cheongsan-do, Reiner Glowinski, Ail Hwang @ailhwang #More-than-human perception #Sensorial expansion #Coexistence #Co-evolution #Insects #Biodiversity #ClimateCrisis #installation #art #berlinartist by @katausten
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3 years ago
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What an amazing premiere! Thank you to @kiaf_official and curator @sgdg_seungahlee for the opportunity to share #EmptyFields #performance at #kiaf. In Empty Fields, I use #fieldrecording from around #Korea and beyond to explore the loss of diversity from the corporeal realm and its migration into the digital realm. Using wearable controllers and lightweight #tech, I become a hyperdimensional sound witch spinning sound worlds from the environment and from #ai augmentation, exploring emerging aesthetics of the #soundscapes in which we are immersed. Thanks for the incredible positive reception Kiaf! I’m back on Saturday 7th September at 3pm. Don’t miss it! #seoul #friezeartweek #artist #performance Empty Fields is produced in cooperation with @goetheinstitut_korea Hyperdimensional space witch outfit @lhn.studio Cooperation partner @urban_artlab Curation of Kiaf onSITE @sgdg_seungahlee Studio team @danielhengst_jitterhorse and Gyubin Lee With heartfelt thanks to @ailhwang and @jay_jaehoon_bang All made possible by the software and support of @atastypixel Fantastic photos by @intothewild_89 by @katausten
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2 years ago
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Porous Grounds revolves around a series of sculptural forms made of hanji, which affect the user's perception of sound. These sculptures have been incorporated into site-specific performances and are presented alongside photographic documentation and audio visual compositions that elaborate on the destruction and redevelopment of Bogwang-dong and Sani-myeon. The sculptural and multimedia installation responds to the ongoing Hannam 3 / Bogwang-dong redevelopment in Seoul and the development of the Korean National AI Data Centre at Solaseado in Haenam. The Bogwang-dong site represents a concentrated site of urban transformation. The Haenam site is representative of large-scale land and habitat transformation, infrastructure construction and technological investment. Together the sites show rural and urban faces of the convergence of architecture, capital, displacement, and aspiration. Performing in-character as the Hyperdimensional Techno-Witch, Austen carried out a series of performances at these sites, navigating the hard and soft physical, social and security-enforced boundaries, while exploring their soundscapes with the Porous Grounds sculptures. Porous Grounds examines this through material resonance, spatial memory, and environmental traces. The installation centres on modular sculptural forms constructed using hanji, combined with lightweight structural elements and embedded sound components. Hanji functions as a cultural reference and as an active membrane that diffuses light, shapes acoustics, and registers airflow and vibration. The material’s permeability operates as a conceptual counterpoint to the sealed surfaces and controlled atmospheres of contemporary high-rise development. Find out more at our Open Studio at @arkoartcentre Art Studios 24-25th July, in Pyeongchang-dong Seoul by @katausten
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3 months ago
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I’ll have Porous Ground research on show at @arko_art_center studios 📢 ARKO 예술창작실 오픈 스튜디오 안내 ARKO 예술창작실 3기 입주 작가의 스튜디오로 여러분을 초대합니다!✨ 📘7월 24일과 25일, 양일간 ARKO 예술창작실의 파란 문이 열립니다. 서로 다른 방식으로 세계를 감각하고 응답하는 작가들의 작업을 만나고, 창작 과정이 남긴 흔적을 따라 그들의 세계를 탐색해 보시기 바랍니다.🗺️ ARKO 예술창작실은 종로구 평창동에 위치하고 있으며, 오픈 스튜디오 기간 동안 별도 예약 없이 방문이 가능합니다. ▪️일시: 26.7.24.(금) - 7.25.(토) 13시-18시 ▪️참여작가: 김솔이 @keygen_personna_1.7 , 양희애 @heeae_yang , 제이크 솔 데이비슨 #jakesoldavidson , 캇 오스틴 @katausten , 시미즈 차토리 @chabobobobobo ▪️장소: 서울시 종로구 평창31길 5, 2층, 아르코 예술창작실 ▪️주최: 한국문화예술위원회 ─── [Notice] 📢ARKO Art Studio Open Studio Invitation We warmly invite you to the Open Studio of the third-term resident artists at ARKO Art Studio! ✨ 📘 On July 24 and 25, the blue door of the Art Studio opens. Meet artists who engage with the world through distinct ways of perceiving and responding, and follow the traces of their creative processes as you explore the unique worlds of their practices.🗺️ Located in Pyeongchang-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul, ARKO Art Studio welcomes visitors throughout the Open Studio. No prior reservation is required. ▪️ Dates & Hours: July 24 (Fri) – July 25 (Sat), 2026, 1:00 – 6:00 PM ▪️ Participating Artists: Sollee Kim, Heeae Yang, Jake Sol Davidson, Kat Austen, Chatori Shimizu ▪️ Venue: ARKO Art Studio, 2F, 5 Pyeongchang 31-gil, Jongno-gu, Seoul, South Korea ▪️ Organizer: Arts Council Korea by @katausten
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3 months ago
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#인터뷰 기후위기를 듣는 것이 가능할까요? 귀를 기울이는 순간, 보이지 않던 도시의 변화가 들리기 시작합니다. 미디어 아티스트 캣 오스틴에게 작업의 출발점은 언제나 ‘보기’가 아닌 #듣기 입니다. 매미 소리와 횡단보도 신호음이 겹치는 서울의 한 여름, 재개발로 사라져가는 보광동의 풍경, 그리고 인간과 기술, 자연이 만들어내는 미묘한 리듬까지. 그녀는 소리를 통해 우리가 지나치기 쉬운 도시와 환경의 변화를 기록합니다. 남산 인근에 작업실을 둔 주한독일문화원의 이웃, 캣 오스틴은 왜 “듣기”를 예술적 방법론으로 삼게 되었을까요? 그리고 서울에서의 경험은 그녀의 작업을 어떻게 변화시켰을까요? 오랜 시간 기후위기를 작업의 핵심 주제로 탐구해 온 캣 오스틴. 이번 인터뷰에서 그녀만의 시선과 이야기를 만나보세요. @katausten 🙏 #katausten #미디어아트 #사운드아트 by @katausten
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4 months ago
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The Matter of the Soul | Symphony 2018 The Matter of the Soul | Symphony is an experimental electronic music performance and album addressing the profound impact of climate change on the Arctic region, exploring mining, identity, melting ice and migration through the central theme of dispersal. Currently playing at @synthasia_kr in Audina salon curated and spatialised for a Mongolian Ger listening space by @hertzanddough #soundart #symphony #arctic #climatecrisis #meltingice by @katausten
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4 months ago
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Super happy to be sharing The Matter of the Soul at Hertz and Dough's Audinua Salon at @synthasia_kr - I mean what a beautiful thing to be in the gorgeous Korean countryside, inside a Mongolian Ger with spatialised soundscapes flowing around you... and what a lineup of compositions. Stunning! Thanks Hertz and Dough <3 @hertzanddough by @katausten
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✨ Monday Salon, June 8 ✨ ✨ About the Presenter @katausten Kat Austen's creates work that interrogates human connection to landscapes, highlighting the empathy and paradox at the heart of our species’ relationships to the non-human and more-than-human. Austen’s work departs from site-specific research, in which she employs deep listening and embodied techniques to gain a visceral understanding of place. This experience is transported into her work through composition, visuals, sculpture and movement. 캇 오스틴은 인간과 풍경 사이의 관계를 탐구하며, 인간이 비인간(non-human) 및 인간을 넘어선 존재들(more-than-human)과 맺는 관계 속에 존재하는 공감과 역설에 주목하는 작업을 선보여 왔습니다. 그녀의 작업은 특정 장소에 대한 리서치에서 출발하며, 깊은 듣기(deep listening)와 신체적 경험에 기반한 방법론을 통해 장소를 감각적으로 이해하고자 합니다. 이러한 경험은 작곡, 영상, 조각, 움직임 등의 다양한 매체를 통해 작품으로 구현됩니다. Website: https://katausten.com ✨ At Monday Salon Landscapes in transformation, sealed skin of the planet. Does the Earth need to sweat? To breathe? Who can access, which can access, what can access, what can escape? Borders offer protection but they limit, too. How porous is the ground? 변화하는 풍경, 그리고 봉인된 지구의 피부. 지구도 땀을 흘려야 할까? 숨을 쉬어야 할까? 누가 접근할 수 있으며, 무엇이 접근할 수 있고, 무엇이 빠져나갈 수 있을까? 경계는 보호를 제공하지만 동시에 제한을 만들기도 한다. 과연 땅은 얼마나 많은 것을 통과시킬 수 있을까? * 이미지 제공: 작가 | Image courtesy of the artist ___________________________ 📅 June 8, 2026 (Mon) 🕒 3 PM 📍 Academy Room, Total Museum ___________________________ #토탈미술관 #TMCA #월요살롱 #MondaySalon #KatAusten by @katausten
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For the last 10 months I have been creating an archive of the transforming landscape at the site of #Korea's national #AI #DataCentre. What happens to the river?... Between autumn 2025 and spring 2026, the waterway at the heart of the construction site dramatically changed. #construction #aiwateruse #ecosystems #water #aquaticlife #environmentaljustice by @katausten
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5 months ago
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#ai #ai트레이너 인공지능에게 죽음과 윤리를 가르치는 사람들은 누구일까요? 혐오 표현처럼 AI가 스스로 걸러내야 할 기준은, 과연 누가 만들고 입력하는 걸까요? 박아름빛 작가는 AI 뒤편에 존재하는 보이지 않는 노동, ‘AI 트레이너’의 현실을 조명해온 작가입니다. 이번 개인전 《코끼리의 이는 보여도 씹는 건 보이지 않는다》에서는 개인적 경험을 넘어 오늘날 AI 산업을 움직이는 구조적 노동의 조건으로까지 시선을 확장합니다. 전시 연계 프로그램으로 진행되는 이번 스크리닝 및 패널 토크에서는 AI와 디지털 노동의 이면을 비판적으로 조망하는 다섯 편의 영상 작품도 함께 상영됩니다. ‘인공지능’이라는 기술을 넘어, 그것을 가능하게 만드는 인간의 노동과 윤리에 관심 있는 분들의 많은 관심과 참여 바랍니다. 스크리닝 및 패널 토크 <Skin of the Machine> 📍 6월 9일 (화) 저녁 7시 📍 주한독일문화원 강당 📍 언어: 영어, 한국어 🎬 영상 프로그램: * Kat Austen @katausten * Francisco González Rosas @francis.francois * Narges Kalhor @nargeskalhor * Areumbit Park @areumbit * Mina Yee @meena_yee 🎙️ 사회자: 이혜원 @cultureplanner 🎙️ 패널: Kat Austen, 박아름빛 . . . 박아름빛 개인전 <코끼리의 이는 보여도 씹는 건 보이지 않는다> 📍 5월 30일 – 7월 11일 📍 아트센터예술의시간 #aitrainer #스크리닝 #행사 taken in 서울 주한 독일문화원 by @katausten
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5 months ago
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9th June 2026 at Goethe Institute Korea -- I will share an experimental edit of my new film THIRST/Lost River -- during the screening programme Skin of the Machine, artistic films exploring aspects of AI, in the context of @areumbit 's current exhibition in Seoul. Hosted by Areumbit Park and @goetheinstitut_korea with myself, @francis.francois @nargeskalhor, @areumbit and Mina Yee. Join us for a post-screening #artisttalk. #film #experimentalfilm #screening #ai #technology #artandtechnology taken in Goethe-Institut Korea by @katausten
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