Wing/nets featured in Econique Magazine

Thanks to journalist Giorgia Basili for her beautiful writeup of Wing/nets and How to Touch a Dragonfly at the Digital Art Awards 2025. A dragonfly resisting climate change – and disposable cups! Read the article

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New artwork will Premiere at Galway International Art Festival

We are delighted to share that Kat’s newest artwork will premiere at the world-renowned Galway International Art Festival in July. ~~ Not Breaking ~~~~This Wave Drowns Hate~~ is an interactive artwork by artist Kat Austen that responds to the crisis of marine microplastic pollution and diminishing ocean health by creating […]

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Finalist for the Digital Art Awards 2025

We are delighted to share that Kat is a finalist for the Digital Art Awards 2025 curated by HOFA (House of Fine Arts) and in partnership with Phillips Auction House, London. As one of the finalists for the Experiential category, Kat’s works How to Touch a Dragonfly and Wing/nets sit […]

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Weather Premium 0.5 at 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale

Weather Premium will feature in the exhibition of the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale in the Arsenale, exhibited as Weather Premium 0.5, curated by Carlo Ratti. Weather Premium links weather modification programmes, AI simulation technologies and financial weather derivatives. This project is by Luiza Crosman and Eduardo Castillo Vinuesa, for which […]

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Longlisted for Aesthetica Art Prize 2025

We are delighted to announce that immersive installation How to Touch a Dragonfly has been long-listed for the Aesthetica Art Prize 2025. More about How to Touch a Dragonfly. Last year, How to Touch a Dragonfly was nominated for the J+ Art Awards and shortlisted for the Lumen Prize in […]

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Residency: Plastic Echoes at iii

Kat is delighted to be in residency at the excellent instrument inventors in The Hague, Netherlands. Over the next month, Kat will be working on the realisation of a prototype instrument that creates sound from the presence and movement of microplastic particles. More information: Kat’s residency at instrument inventors Join […]

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Performance: Tuning with Suan Seol at Space Cell, Seoul

On the occasion of Suan Seol’s screening of three film works, Kat and Suan prepared a new performance sound + video work responding to the loss/preservation of traditional farming methods in Korea. The performance took place at Space Cell, a film-focussed space in Seoul, Korea.

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Development residency: postWinterreise

For 3 weeks in January, Kat was in residency at the Gärtnerhaus, Berlin, further developing postWinterreise with Andrew Munn. postWinterreise is a journey into ecological transformation. Composed at the dawn of the industrial revolution, Franz Schubert’s Winterreise traces a narrative of individual loss in winter. In a time when winter […]

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Weather Premium at ACC Residency Open Studios

I’m delighted to be part of the team realising Weather Premium, an initiative by Skyscores (Luiza Cosman and Eduardo Castilo Vinuesa). I composed the soundscape. ACC Residency Open StudiosOpening 22nd November 22 Nov – 27 Nov Asia Culture CentreGwangju, KR More Information on eflux More Information at ACC Website

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Wing/nets solo exhibition at Oksang Factory Seoul

We are delighted to announce the solo exhibition of Wing/nets at Oksang Factory in Seoul. Drawing on scientific research into dragonfly physiology, the Wing/net sculptures multimedia hexagonal relief sculptures provide windows onto the sensitive bodies of dragonflies, and their unique forms of perception. Combined with fragmented imagery of dragonfly habitats […]

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