LadyK Studios

Technology mediates our experiences and understanding of time. Communication technologies shape our identity, pushing us along the posthuman continuum. Algorithms show us the fragility of communications; power of speed, memory and connectivity; and our own deficits. As a new media, fiber, and installation artist, Katherine Bennett builds interactive and responsive systems, which demonstrate the gaps, and connections that technology creates.

She is fascinated with network packet sniffing; bots masquerading as humans; machine learning algorithms; and machine knitting. She write code, coupling it with circuits, sensors, lights, speakers and fibers to build interactive objects and environments where views engage with existing power structures and frameworks, under a critical lens. Her research outcomes are physically responsive and interactive multichannel installation systems and poetic devices.

Katherine is a recent recipient of the Harvestworks New Works Residency (2019). Her work appears in the Spring 2019 issue of Fiber Arts Now. She has exhibited at the Inst-Int Festival, ODETTA Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), ISEA (Vancouver, BC & Singapore), Maryland Art Place (Baltimore, MD), Indianapolis Art Center (Indianapolis, IN), Obro (Canada), Collar Works (Troy, New York), The University of the Arts (Philadelphia), The Electrofringe Festival (New Castle, Australia), The University of Nevada, Reno, Zhou B Art Center (Chicago), and the Contemporary Arts Center (Cincinnati, OH), among others. She has received grants from Fiber Arts Now, The Ohio Arts Council, the Puffin Foundation and the Illuminating & Engineering Society. Her other residencies include Jentel, Weir Farm and the Vermont Studio Center (full grant). She teaches workshops and courses centered on human-computer interaction design, programming, physical computing at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering.