As a new media, fiber, and installation artist, Katherine Bennett
builds interactive systems exploring our emerging futures of the digital experience.
She utilizes sound and light to represent people, relationships and activities that
happen in other spaces and times. She creates a delicate presence of these entities,
developing the architecture to facilitate them; choreograph within time; making each
visceral. She utilizes programming and physical computing to create interactive and
responsive installations. She codes and incorporates sensors, electronics, fibers
and computer vision to create her pieces. She is fascinated by the liminal spaces
created by digital communities and the cultural changes that result. Her latest
environments investigate how communication technologies are shaping our identity and
pushing us towards a tighter integration with the machine. Katherine is a recent
recipient of the Harvestworks New Works Residency (2019). Her work appears in the
Spring 2019 and 2020 issues 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 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).
