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kat @kat.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2026

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 […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

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kat @kat.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/05/2026

More impressions from our Reveil 13 Seoul event for #DawnChorusDay in #Seoul #southkorea - me looking like the pied piper as I carry the Yongsan-gu streambox to its new home in Mapo-gu 🔊🎧

A group of people seen from behind, walking away from the camera through a park with a cityscape in the background

A person in a green top holds a black box aloft. The box has furry bits sticking out of it which protect stereo microphones. A nighttime cityscape in the background and small bushes in the foreground.

Two faces illuminated by the city’s nighttime sky glow. The one on the right holds a black box up to show the camera.

A group of people attending to a speech given outdoors by a sympathetic looking person.

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kat @kat.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/05/2026

#livestreaming #performance of the transfer of the #seoul #streambox to its new home in Mapo-gu on Saturday for #reveil13 celebration of #DawnChorusDay

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kat @kat.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/04/2026

🏆 Longlisted for Aesthetica Art Prize 🏆 For the second year in a row, my practice in #installation #art has been selected by the Jury of #Aesthetica #ArtPrize for the #longlist, highlighting that my work is “pushing the boundaries of contemporary art and […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

Photo of a large and high hall with a ship’s sails at the far end of the space. Grey carpet and light grey walls. On the sails there is a projection with text and a circular image of a coast. There are 5 sculptures on single-legged tables highlighted by spotlights, arranged in front of the ship in to create an irregular pentagonal organisation. Image label gives the name of the artwork “Not Breaking. this Wave Drowns Hate”

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kat @kat.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/04/2026

I’m really happy to be representing transdisciplinary arts as a member of the Advisory Board for #BerlinScienceWeek 2026. So a Question for the #fediverse: What do you think are the most important science topics of our time? Is it how science is taught? Is it […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

Black and white photograph of a person wearing a zipped up jacket with an undercut hairstyle, with a banner stating Kat Austen, Studio Austen, Advisory Board Berlin Science Week 2026

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kat @kat.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/03/2026

I’m giving a public reading performance from the book of THIRST/For Knowledge, at my exhibition in Gangnam next week. Join me at either 11am Monday 23rd March or 3pm Tuesday 24th March to hear excerpts from the book and field recordings from my sound archive […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

Image shows two books lit from above. On the left the book is held open by someone’s hands. Their arms are visible and clothed in orange and green striped top. The book on the right is closed. It has a white cover with a blue motif that looks like a river valley system. The title THIRST/For Knowledge is in the upper right corner oriented perpendicularly, and next to it are the names Kat Austen and Paul O’Neill.

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kat @kat.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/02/2026

#DeathAndResurrection is the journey of the Hyperdimensional #TechnoWitch through planes of existence. -- LIMINAL SYMBIOSIS -- Renewed, reconstructed, becoming... at 𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐂𝐀𝐏𝐄: 𝐍𝐎𝐍𝐒𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 The Hyperdimensional Techno Witch collaborates with an ethically […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

a figure stands, arms spread wide, looking upwards illuminated by a spotlight

a figure moves across a stage in front of a beautiful film mixing film footage with AI graphics and text.

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kat @kat.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/01/2026

-- IM/MATERIAL -- The body in transformation, the building up, the reconfiguration... at 𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐂𝐀𝐏𝐄: 𝐍𝐎𝐍𝐒𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐭 @inscape_art_platform Photography @john_yu_1370 Performance video depicts the ongoing construction of the #Korea National #AI #Datacenter at […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

The words Im/material are displayed in a font and colour similar to that used in old computers.

A hooded figure raises their hand towards a light while behind a video of data centre construction is displayed

The hooded figure stands epically in front of a round projection of a JCB digger tearing up land

The hooded figure is illuminated in red light in front of drone footage of a muddy construction site.

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kat @kat.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/01/2026

Hyperdimensional Techno Witch dropping in for a Performance in Seoul Friday 16th January. The event is invitation only so get in touch if you’d like to join. #performance #soundart #wearables #seoul

Someone’s hooded head, lower jaw and mouth visible, and their left hand sporting a chunky black ring, against a bright cream background.

Someone on stage on a shiny cape with their hands extended, with black rings on their index fingers. They look at their hands.

Advertising poster for performance evening Polychromatic Play. Artists Valeda, Sahar Homami, Kat Austen and Sooyoung Park. Venue SA Hall, Host Inscape.

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kat @kat.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/01/2026

2025 was a year of extraordinary moments. My practice in focussed on the complexation of technologies and landscapes through water and I am looking forward to continuing this thread this year. I’m very grateful to all my collaborators, producers and team for […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

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kat @kat.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/12/2025

In this photo you can see what it looks like when someone who spent 4 years studying dolomite using computational models in the 2000s finally sees actual dolomite for the first time over 20 years later. #phd #chemistry #rocks #geology #forgottendoctorate

A person with slightly greying hair and a jazzy cap is smiling excitedly as they point to a dark patch on a grey rock. There are trees in the background. The photo is taken at an angle of 45 degrees.

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kat @kat.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/11/2025

Opening today: THIRST/For Knowledge at Asia Culture Center, Gwangju. This work means a lot to me. I’ve long been troubled about the #environmental impact of #digitalmateriality. In THIRST/For Knowledge I use field recordings, film and text to focus on the rapid […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

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kat @kat.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/11/2025

AI data centres have water flowing through their pipes, a new ocean within private architecture, the bodies of artificial intelligence. THIRST/For Knowledge confronts our new watery complexation with AI bodies in the intelligence age. Opening 26th November at […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

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kat @kat.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/11/2025

As South Korea begins construction of the National AI Data Centre at Solaseado, Haenam, I’ve been researching the site for my new artwork THIRST/For Knowledge — an immersive sound installation that listens to the entanglement of water, land, and technology […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

Threatened river at the development site of an AI data centre in South Korea. Image shows green banks and sunlight reflecting on rippled surface of a large body of water.

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kat @kat.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/11/2025

If you’re in #Dublin, my work Not Breaking. This Wave Drowns Hate is opening on Thursday at The Substation, Dublin Port katausten.com/2025/10/18/not-breaki…

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kat @kat.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2025

Breaking News: The National AI Data Centre of Korea has just been announced to be built at the site in Solaseado, where I have been researching for my artwork THIRST/For Knowledge for the last 4 months. This is a photo of me at the exact site where the […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

Kat Austen wrapped up against the sunshine making field recordings by the side of a muddy lake

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kat @kat.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2025

Processing what I experienced on my field trip to the #jeollanamdo #haenam development #Solaseado - I’ve been drawn to return to sketching while listening to my encounters with the #landscape - here is the first… something struck me about the #heat and #dry […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

A pencil and watercolour sketch of a dried hillock

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kat @kat.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2025

I wrote a paper proposing The Constitution of the Sea - how we can learn with, from and for the ocean to be better humans. You can read the full paper here: intellectdiscover.com/content/journ…

$This photo shows the text: I recently wrote about The Constitution of the Sea The Constitution of the Sea To be permeable, variable and fractal in boundaries To complex, diverse and amalgamated To be elemental To be mutable, dynamic and responsive To maintain character To support, to encompass and replenish To be vast and powerful, deep and calm To allow the truth of inconsistency Across scale and across time, to constitute.$ This photo shows the text: To float in the sea's saltiness is to know its history of unending becoming with the shore; the touch of its water on one's skin is the touch of millennia of deposition and attrition, of solidifying sand dunes and collapsing cliffs.

This photo shows the text: To float in the sea's saltiness is to know its history of unending becoming with the shore; the touch of its water on one's skin is the touch of millennia of deposition and attrition, of solidifying sand dunes and collapsing cliffs.

This photo shows the text: How stifling to try to tame water with names, to co-opt it as a border, to blind ourselves to its magnificent wildness. There is a wonderful complexity to the interconnection between rain dripping from a leaf in the heart of Central Europe and the crashing waves in the Southern Ocean. To embrace it is to have a glimpse of true wonder.

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kat @kat.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2025

I’m a #dragonfly resisting change - and #disposablecups ! Thanks so much to Giorgia Basili for this awesome writeup of Wing/nets and the How to Touch a Dragonfly ecosystem of works in Econique.art. The article covers the winners and finalists of the […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

Front page of an article about Pioneers in New Media Art

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kat @kat.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/05/2025

Really happy that How to Touch a Dragonfly has been put on the Longlist for Aesthetica #ArtPrize. The artwork highlights #dragonfly #biodiversity and #habitatloss and fosters #empathy for #insects. I really value the recognition of an environmentally motivated […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

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