Category: About
Welcome
Photo from R&D, work in progress, Chrysalis 2006 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...Read on »
About the Artist
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...Read on »
Academic
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 . Practise and theory of digital and time based art...Read on »
Category: Journal
Crossing Over
My current exhibition, Cocoon is a dual video projection installation. Cocoon was designed for the context and architectural setting of the glass atrium as part of Crossing Over at the Royal Institution of Great Britain. A series of exhibitions have...Read on »
Sensual Technologies
Artist presenter at the interdisciplinary conference Sensual Technologies at the ICA, London. The event was a 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...Read on »
Mutamorphosis
Mutamorphosis Challenging Arts and Sciences Prague, Czechoslovakia. Presenter in the framework of the Leonardo 40th anniversary celebrations concerned with current directions in art and science. Joining international conference presenters with essay/text, Bacteria, Geology and Blood, based on artworks exploring themes...Read on »
aminima
Publication of text in aminima. Art journal focusing on contemporary, conceptual, new media art. The magazine follows a methodology which resembles that of scientific magazines and the website contains an archive of texts written by people whose work reflects...Read on »
Art of Creation
Exhibition of installation, Tremor within international event, Genesis - The Art of Creation, Zentrum Paul Klee, Berne, Switzerland. Genesis, Analysis, Code, Playing Games and Chaos – these are the five dramatic focal points of this exhibition. They connect and combine...Read on »
Amilisweerd
In August 2006 I was a guest of the Centraal Museum, Utrecht in the Netherlands and stayed at the Amilisweerd house for two weeks to establish a project with the University of Utrecht. The Centraal Museum manages this 18th...Read on »
Symbiotic Evolution
Biology is the search for chemistry that works R.J.P Williams The Chemistry of Evolution Bacteria, Geology and Blood Ideas about the origins and evolution of life get constantly reversioned by the sciences. In 2005 I made a road trip...Read on »
Symbiotica TC&A
In late autumn 2005 I had a semester academic research sabbatical as a visiting artist/researcher at Symbiotica TC&A at the School of Anatomy and Human Biology, University of Western Australia, Perth. Overview Symbiotica is an artist run laboratory that can...Read on »
Category: R & D
Polka
I'm working on a recording project that explores the irregular heart beat in transgenic zebrafish. Measurements of electrical activity of different chambers and areas of the living heart are made to resemble maps. In developmental genetics the zebrafish genes are...Read on »
Cardiogenesis
Work in progress based on initial meetings with researchers at the Netherlands Royal Academy of Arts and Science, Hubrecht Developmental Biology Lab, Utrecht University. From my Project Notebooks: Genetic Sculpture The themes of this project focus on the signals of...Read on »
Signal Cascade
Zebrafish facility at the Hubrecht Developmental Biology Laboratory, Utrecht University The Perishable Soft Image Genes that control other genes have nucleotide seqeunces that are conserved accross the whole animal kingdom. Repeated functions, organizers and zones are transplanted into developing...Read on »
Zebrafish Zoo
Zebrafish facility at the Hubrecht Developmental Biology Laboratory, Utrecht University The transparency and motion of the fish coalesce and suggest the change, migration and transcription of bases of DNA Biotic Life In genetic studies, the zebrafish is perceived as a...Read on »
Cell Theory
Growing Oyster Mushrooms Cultural and Cosmic Evolution In 1839 Schleiden and Schwann proposed cell theory. Stating that cells have universal occurrence and are the basic units of an organism. Cells are like lakes that drain into bodies. Organic matter is...Read on »
Heart
The Anatomy of the Heart as a Pump The heart is a muscular pump that propels blood into the arterial (delivery) system and receives blood from the venous (return) system. The heart is divided into right and left sides....Read on »
Fungi
Fungus and Flesh I have developed a simple experimental home lab growing fungi from spawn cultures and use photographic and time-lapse video to record their morphogenesis.This a technically unsophisticated approach to growing and translating natural phenomena as emergent sculptural...Read on »
Danse Macabre
The Darkness of Ruysch Series of works based on the famous anatomical collections of Frederik Ruysch. Anatomical collections suspend life forms in death as embalmed artefacts. Ruysch dressed specimens in period costumes made by his daughter. The recurrence of embryos...Read on »
Drawings
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Chrysalis
Still Lives Biological phenomena and the biochemical basis of genetic expression within the nucleus are traced with colour. Fluorescently labelled DNA sequence specific probes can be used to selectively stain and paint individual molecules and to make a tracing of...Read on »
Genetic Memory
All Life is Animated Water The collection and analysis of human genome was completed at the beginning of this century. The sequence is freely available as a research tool for biologists. The existence of a universal code forces us...Read on »
Antler Bone
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The Keres
The Greek Goddesses of bloodshed were called the Keres, they wore red robes and drank the blood of their victims as an act of deliverance of the soul to the underworld....Read on »
Blood
Notes on the Properties of Blood and Circulation In blood the orchestrations of cell divisions, migrations, death, growth and differentiation lead to a phantom residue of disembodied potentials. Heart Bridge The observation by William Harvey that "Blood is the...Read on »
Symbiotic Evolution
Biology is the search for chemistry that works R.J.P Williams The Chemistry of Evolution Bacteria, Geology and Blood Ideas about the origins and evolution of life get constantly reversioned by the sciences. In 2005 I made a road trip...Read on »
Category: Work
Crossing Over
My current exhibition, Cocoon is a dual video projection installation. Cocoon was designed for the context and architectural setting of the glass atrium as part of Crossing Over at the Royal Institution of Great Britain. A series of exhibitions have...Read on »
Evolution Haute Couture
EVOLUTION HAUTE COUTURE Art and Science in the Post-Biological Age The National Centre for Contemporary Arts Kaliningrad, Russia. Video document as part of an international project with: Mauro Annunziato & Piero Pierucci /James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau / Brandon Ballengee...Read on »
Sensual Technologies
Artist presenter at the interdisciplinary conference Sensual Technologies at the ICA, London. The event was a 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...Read on »
Hybrid
Hybrid - Reflections on Art and Science Museo Nacional de Soares Dos Reis Porto, Portugal. Exhibition of Tremor video document as part of an international exhibition of art and science collaborations. Curated by Marta de Menezes in co-operation with the...Read on »
Confronting Mortality
Confronting Mortality with Art and Science Antwerp, Belgium. Opening doors between the worlds of art and science. Curated photographs presented as part of on-line gallery in association with conference and gallery exhibition. AEIMS (EU) MAA (UK) AMI (USA) Vesalius Trust...Read on »
Tremor
Video projection and aquariums containing classically mutated zebrafish based on themes drawn from developmental biology and genetics. Commissioned by Dr Emilie Gomart, guest curator for the Centraal Museum, Utrecht as part of Genesis (Life at the end of the information...Read on »
Art of Creation
Exhibition of installation, Tremor within international event, Genesis - The Art of Creation, Zentrum Paul Klee, Berne, Switzerland. Genesis, Analysis, Code, Playing Games and Chaos – these are the five dramatic focal points of this exhibition. They connect and combine...Read on »
DNA.CORN
Multi projection screen video and surround sound installation with table top dioramas and multiple sculptural elements for the Lab Gallery Space, San Francisco, USA. Commissioned for The Gateway Project, an international collaboration between artists and scientists. Photos from the gallery...Read on »
The Imagination of Matter
Work that interprets the cultural significance of maize, drawing together themes of mythology, archaeology and plant genetics.Read on »
Venomous Transformation
Video and sound installation commissioned by the Millais Gallery, Southampton for Ingenious Transformations. Venom Compound Video work exploring the relationship between humans and snakes in the context of venom extraction and the DNA of anti-venom compounds. Video stills from Venomous...Read on »
Parable
Video and sound installation developed for The Contemporary Arts Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania as part of Twilight. Presented at Onufri, The National Gallery of Art, Tirana, Albania 2003 Video stills from the Parable of Raudonavaris Installation featuring Palina Panamarcuk, originally from...Read on »
The Water Projects
Various site specific projects made for The Incident, in the city of Fribourg, Switzerland as part of the Belluard- Bollwerk International festival. Dowsing of remotely viewed map of Fribourg showing underground water pools, lakes and springs Water Vortex The water...Read on »
Viperscience
Interactive triggered sound and video installation concerned with physiological consciousness and imagistic aspects of the snake as encoded knowledge for the Incident at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London based on the work of the late Jose Diaz Bolio.an anthropologist...Read on »
Psi Net
Photos, video stills, background research and thermographic images from Psi Net Extended Reach, Telephony and Telematics Psi net was a of series of three hour long live, on-site, remote viewing and mediumship experiments made over three nights at a...Read on »
Sleepless Dreaming
A series of Interactive VR works for use with headset and data glove and the multi screen installation, The Still Room, were shown at The State of the Image as part of Eldorado and the cultural capital of Europe, Koninklijk...Read on »
The Rites of Reclamation
Single screen video Video stills from the Rites of Reclamation Interior Space and Memory Single screen video in distribution through LUX. This work is a reversioning of virtual space experimental narrative work and psi net with sound composition by Steve...Read on »
Bioapparatus
Technology and Body VR produced at the Banff Centre for the Arts Canada during a residency conceived by Catherine Richards and Nell Tenhaff who introduced the themes of the technological apparatus, the technological body, and the new biology. This was...Read on »
Alkhemia
Experimental VR applied as multiple screen video installation Video stills from Alkhemia Surface Light and Noise A series of computer generated, primitive black vases slowly turning against black backgrounds in clockwise and counter-clockwise directions are partially visible through virtual reflections...Read on »
The Art of Losing Memory
Single screen video Video stills from the Art of Losing Memory The Poetics and Patterns of Memory A montage of image and text on screen make connections between the human being and merciless aspects of technology. The work has a...Read on »
The Still Room
Multiple screen video wall and sound installation developed for Exeter Memorial Museum and screened The State of the Image as part of Eldorado for the cultural capital of Europe festival, Koninklijk Paleis, Antwerp, Belgium. Video stills from the Still Room...Read on »
Conversazione
Multiple screen video installation developed for Central Space Gallery London Video stills from Conversazione Loss of Freedom Installation using montage of multi-layered sound, developed around an oral history account of an elderly woman traveller living under the Westway flyover in...Read on »
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