She has 'pursued projects that have seen her engage a variety of scientific specialisms -notably astronomy and astrophysics- and broad subjects at the edges of scientific knowledge'. She has been an artist-in-residence at UCL and regular contact with academic departments and observatories around ze globe (link- makes me think....Lauren Bowker and her chemistry buddies).
Interesting projects - ongoing project involving collecting discrete photographic images of darkness and and disparate points in the universe and turning them into slides... creating the tiniest grain of sand-experts in nano-technology carved an infinitely smaller fragment from an already miniscule grain of sand, and place it into the desert accompanied by a photo-postcard and a description... Vatnajokull (the sound of) was a piece of work exhibiting a neon sign of a phone number, that if rung would put you directly through to a microphone submerged into a lagoon where the rush of water and trickles of water could be heard...
Lately I have been having troubling thoughts, about this new age of design, technology and trying to find a place, but Katie Patersons work really has a sort of calming influence and has given me inspiration to think about the more sciency-experimental side...
There is an interactive element in her work, but at the same time it seems quite passive,and its about her experience first. I have read the artist focus' a lot on research and writing and thinking, showing that time and space are a method of working as well as a theme...
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