Welcome to my site.

What follows is a combination of review, association and research - a place for me to store ideas, share work and try things out.

My current R&D focuses on the biological origins of the embryonic heart, the beauty and the mystery of the morphogenetic process, and the visual poetry of the beating heart and flowing blood. In my research, as always, I'm trying to explore how aspects of human biology can become more directly accessible in emotional and aesthetic terms.

Kathleen Rogers is a London based contemporary artist. Her installation and video projection artworks are inspired and informed by the scientific disciplines of cell biology, molecular genetics and the biological sciences. She has exhibited internationally in public and contemporary art museums, festivals and conferences in Europe and the USA in contexts for interdisciplinary art, science and technology. Most recently at the newly refurbished Royal Institution of Great Britain, London (2008) Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland( 2008) Centaal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands (2007) and Mutamorphosis, Prague (2007). She collaborates with others in an interdisciplinary context to develop artworks on the themes of consciousness, ecology, biology and genetics.

Some background

In 1985 she obtained her MA degree in Experimental Media from the Slade School of Art London University College, UK.

Earlier exhibitions include, the Central Space Gallery (London, 1990), the Exeter Memorial Museum (Exeter, 1991), the Walter Phillips Gallery (Canada, 1992), the Virtual Museum (Cleveland, 1995), the Belluard Bulwark (Switzerland, 1996), the Institute of Contemporary Arts (London, 1996), the Centre for Contemporary Arts (Vilnius, 1998), the Millais Gallery (Southampton, 1999), the Kettles Yard Gallery (NOISE Project, Cambridge, 2000), the Headlands Centre for the Arts, (Marin, USA, 2001) the Lab (The Gateway Project, San Francisco, 2002), the National Gallery for the Arts, (Onufri, Tirana, 2003) and many others; also within the frameworks of "State of the Image" (Antwerp, Cultural Capital of Europe, 1993). Her video works have been screened at festivals such as Ars Electronica (Linz), Femme Totalle (Dortmund), the European Media Art Festival (Osnabruck), the New Visions Media Festival (Glasgow), the Video Fest (Berlin), Konzept Art von Frauen (Bremen), Video Positive (Liverpool), the Edinburgh Film Festival (Edinburgh) and others. Lectures and presentations given at different conferences and symposiums at venues such as the British Film Institute (London), the Royal College of Art (London), I.S.E.A. (Helsinki), the University of Wales ( Consciousness Reframed, Newport), Cambridge University (National Science Week, Cambridge), Berkeley University (American Association of Anthropology, USA), University of Arizona (Towards a Science of Consciousness), University of Northern Arizona (Arts, Culture, Nature, USA), also at the French Ministry of Culture, (Paris) and "Documenta X" (Kassel).

Senior Lecturer in Digital Screen Arts

UCCA Farnham Campus
The University for the Creative Arts at Canterbury, Epsom, Farnham, Maidstone and Rochester
Academic Research Summary

Practise based research degree supervision
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Practise and theory of digital and time based art on graduate and post graduate courses and emerging disciplines in art and the biological sciences.

Validation panel member for the MA Digital Ekistics programme (Second Life) at UCA, Canterbury.

Selected earlier work

Temporary contracts in programme leadership roles:
2004/2005 Full time programme leader for Television Drama Production.
2003/2004 Full time programme leader for Digital Screen Arts.

1997- 2000 Research Felllow in Electronic Imaging and Digital Culture, UCA, Farnham. Full time researcher.

1993 - 1996 Course Director, Post Graduate School of Television and Electronic Imaging Duncan and Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee University

Visiting lectureships include The Royal College of Art (Computer Related Design), London University, Central St Martins (Film and Video) Westminster University (Creative Media Practise), School of Art & Design, University of Wolverhampton.

Selected Conference and Symposia Presentations

2008 SENSUAL TECHNOLOGIES conference on at the ICA, London.
One-day international symposium from The Brunel School of Arts, Sensual Technologies. It explored alternate and aesthetic uses of technology that extend artistic practice beyond the expected, into realms of unusual and heightened experience.

2007 MUTAMORPHOSIS - CHALLENGING ARTS AND SCIENCES
Prague, Czechoslovakia.
International conference presenter in the framework of the Leonardo 40th anniversary celebrations concerned with current directions in art and science.
Joining a international presenters and delivering essay/text, Bacteria, Geology and Blood, based on artworks exploring themes of developmental biology and evolutionary symbiosis.

2003 Onufri, The Academy of Arts, Tirana.
Public lecture, "Evolving Images - Early Abstract Cinema and Digital Imaging Aesthetics" at the National Academy of Arts, Tirana, Albania.

2001 Subtle Technologies, Canada
University of Toronto.Between Art. Technology and Science, international conference presenter in event concerned with Genetics, Mathematics, Robotics, Interface design, AI, Consciousness Research, Quantum Physics at the University of Toronto. Financially supported by Toronto Arts Council - Publication

2001 International conference of Arts, Culture and Nature, Arizona
University of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, Arizona USA International conference presenter with AMD & ART and Green Museum on the nature of collaboration in arts and sciences towards social and environmental solutions with Lucy Lippard amongst others. Travel supported by Green Museum, Marin County, California

2000 Towards a Science of Consciousness IV, University of Arizona, USA
International conference with representatives from psychology, philosophy, neuroscience, cognitive science, computer science, anthropology, physics, mathematics, medicine, biology, art, the humanities as part of a third major interdisciplinary scientific conference on consciousness. Poster presentation
The Imagination of Matter, Maize DNA - Publication

2000 Symposium programme of the Genetics Forum CALF, USA
Coalition of Artists and Life Forms with Dale Hoyt for San Francisco State College.

2000 National Science Week Event, Cambridge
Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge University
Presentation of work, DNA . CORN in event with Simon Schaeffer, John Tchelenko, , Soraya De Chadarevian philosopher and historian of science specialising in Crick and Watson DNA models

1998 Towards a Science of Consciousness III. University of Arizona, USA.
International conference with interdisciplinary representatives from psychology, philosophy, neuroscience, cognitive science, computer science, anthropology, physics, mathematics, medicine, biology, art, the humanities as part of a third major scientific conference on consciousness. Poster presentation and screenings of Viperscience work.

1998 Consciousness Reframed II, University of Wales. Newport
CAII Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts,
International Conference on Art and Consciousness in the Post-Biological Era Publication

1998 Towards a Media Ecology - Recontres Internationales, London.
The Lux Centre with Maria Klonaris and Katerina Thomadaki. and Michael Maziere

1998 Documenta X - Kassel, Germany
Hybrid Workspace presentation as part of MUTE event and part of the Hybrid Workspace. Presentation of maize DNA research work on roundtable on genetics. Publication - internet distribution by Mute

1997 American Anthropological Association, Berkeley, USA.
Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness University of California,
International conference presenter with work on Viperscience project in event with Stanley Krippner, Michael Winkellman - Publication

1997 Consciousness Reframed I, University of Wales. Newport
CAII , Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts,
International research conference - Art and Consciousness in the Post-Biological Era. presenter of Viperscience works in event with Mark Pesce, Zoe Beloff, Margot Lovejoy, Victoria Vesna, Eduardo Kac - Publication.

1996 International Women's Film Festival, Dublin, Eire
Women in Film and Television, Images of Women seminar, presenter with Liv Ullmann, Lynn Ramsay

1996 Emergent Parallels, Wolverhampton
The Lighthouse, Wolverhampton with, AI Rees, Graham Harwood

1996 Across Two Cultures, Digital Dreams 4, Newcastle
Keynote speaker at international three day festival exploring the relationship between science and art with Mark Dery, Natalie Jeremijenko, Cross and Cornford and Char Davies

1995 FilmMakers Co-op, London
London Women on the Verge. Symposium on Women and Technology International conference and video programming of work from DJCA

1994 The Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Keynote speaker, The Body - Seduced and Abandoned in the Virtual world, part of Towards the Aesthetics of the Future event, presenter with Orlan, Christine Tamblyn, Sadie Plant, Pat Carridan, Bruce Sterling, Paul Sermon, Karl Sims

1994 A.S.T.A.R.T.I. pour L'Art Audiovisuell, Paris
Mutations De L'image - International Symposium on Art & Technology
presenter in event citation in publication by Anne Marie Duguet -Text, Art and Phenomena

1994 The End of Reality - Bratislava, Slovakia
Presentation in international event on multi-disciplinary perspectives of photography in the digital environment. Conference presenter with Martin Sperka, Edward Earl, Adam Lowe, Zdenka Kalnicka - Publication

1994 I.S.E.A. in Helsinki. Finland
The 5th International Symposium on Electronic Art Presenter with, Jeffrey Shaw. Timothy Druckery, Stelarc, Christian Moller, Derick de Kirkhove.
Publication - Art and Phenomena.

1993 Fotofeis, Scotland,
Digital Imaging Conference, Virtual Real Estate

1992 Glasgow Media Festival - New Visions, Scotland.
Presentation - Virtual Reality and Art
Virtual Real Estate Publication - Variant Magazine

1990 Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada
The Bio-Apparatus - Conference presentation and invited artist, ten week residency of multi-disciplinary and international group of artists and VR scientists