About

// animation / live art / immersive projections / moving-image installations / cognitive science / visual enthusiasm //

Kate is a director and artist at Chroma Collective. Kate founded Chroma Collective in 2010 – a group of artists, animators and programmers specialising in interdisciplinary and interactive work – and directs animation performances and large-scale projection events such as Camp Bestival’s Firework’s and Animation Finale. Currently she is funded by the Arts Council to collaborate with scientists at the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science to explore cutting-edge brain research through moving image. Recent projects include Encephalo//Graphic performance for the Art of Life Science Festival, and NO PLACE for Brighton and Hove’s White Night Festival.

Over the last decade she has worked as an animator, performer and director on digital installations and interactive performances for arts festivals in the UK and Italy. On moving to Brighton she joined digital production company Plug-in Media and was one of the team to receive a BAFTA in 2009 for Big and Small Online and a BAFTA in 2010 for Zingzillas Interactive.

To produce her projects, Kate has undertaken research across a variety of fields: moving image, digital media, performance, the brain sciences, technology and theory of mind. During her Creative Media Practice MA at Sussex University she specialised in Visual Culture, with a particular focus on immersive visual technologies: the subject of her current research. She has also researched pre-filmic optical devices for the 2010 Brighton Festival project Off the Path.

Kate has curated animation and performance events, as well as screening programmes, for the BANG network. Kate gets excited about collaborative production and the narrative possibilities that emerging technologies promise and she conceived and co-directed BANG’s collaborative urban projection projects, including the trans-media event Dream Machine in 2010.