Who's who
Kate Southworth
Award Leader, Curatorial Practice
BA(Hons) Fine Art; MSc Multimedia Systems
Research interests
My research is on the distributed form in contemporary art and curatorial practices, with a particular emphasis on self-organisation and 'everyday' art encounters and events. I have organised several events around these concepts, including: a 2010 series of three Critical Debates in Digital Arts funded by Arts Council England, South West, and the 2007 Disrupting Narratives conference at Tate Modern that brought together some of the world's leading media theorists, artists and researchers to explore distributed forms in contemporary art. My recent work on ways of exhibiting distributed art was presented at the Research as Exhibition symposium at Tate Britain in 2010, and at the AHRC funded Creative Digital Media Research Practice: Production Through Exhibition symposium in 2010 at Culture Lab, Newcastle University. I have collaborative art practice with Patrick Simons working under the name Glorious Ninth. Our work is exhibited in academic, gallery and distributed network contexts.
Recent outputs
- Lists of Instability (glorious ninth), laserprints on graph paper, published in Wolfgang Sützl & Geoff Cox (eds), DATA Browser 04 Creating Insecurity: art and culture in the age of security (Autonomedia: New York, 2009)
- Cultural Capital (glorious ninth), Distributed work, hosted by curators across UK and Europe, including: Zoe Shearman at Craftivism, Arnolfini, Bristol, 2009/10. Selected for ISEA Exhibition, International Symposium of Electronic Art, Belfast, 2009
- Diggers (glorious ninth), HD Video and Woad seeds, ‘UnCraftivism', Craftivism, Bristol, 2009
Selected earlier outputs
- NOVEMBER (glorious ninth), Networked art performance (with Furtherfield), Archived 2007, available online at november.gloriousninth.net
- Packet Switching (glorious ninth), Generative A/V with live streaming, commissioned for Net:Reality touring group show (funded Arts Council England)
- Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery, Shrewsbury (2006)
- Q Arts, Derby (2005)
- 20-21 Gallery, Lincolnshire (2005)
- Who Owns Them Controls (glorious ninth), Net art, Immedia 2002 Annual Exhibition of Digital and Electronic Art, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2001
Current research / forthcoming outputs
- Electronic Village Galleries pilot research project, Distributed electronic art exhibition with self-organised community events, (Funded Arts Council England, South West), 2011
Membership of learned societies, subject associations
- Artist Member, Rhizome
Editorial boards (or equivalent)
- Advisory Board Member, Furtherfield.org, media arts organisation, London
- Advisory Board Member, Bespoke, EPSRC funded research project
- Advisory Board Member (2009/10), Look Groups Pilot Project, Tate St.Ives, Cornwall Council
- Editorial Board, Fibreculture Journal relating to digital media, networks and transdisciplinary critique
Other matters of research relevance
Panel Chair, Media Matters: Friedrich Kittler and Technoculture symposium, Tate Modern, July 2008
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