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COSMOPOLITICAL FUTURES

COSMOPOLITICAL FUTURES, THE ANTHROPOCENIC HUMAN Cosmopolitical Futures, The Anthropocenic Human series reflects my long time interest and research in foundational studies in theories of quantum physics and the nature of nature and the properties of living matter. In recent projects...

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About the Artist

Kathleen Rogers is a London based contemporary artist, working across interdisciplinary fields in the arts and humanities that cross-over in the life sciences. Her artworks have been exhibited in public art museums and galleries, festivals internationally. Including the international...

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Welcome

Welcome to my website. What follows is a combination of review, association and research - a place to store ideas, archive and share my artworks and process. In my visual arts research, as always, I'm trying to explore how...

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Academic

Professor of Media Arts and Science AHRC Peer Review College and Panel Member 2008 - 2013 Bio-synopsis Kathleen Rogers is a London-based artist working with digital media, video, sound, photography and installation. Her media art practice intersects multiple disciplines, informed...

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Category: Journal

COSMOPOLITICAL FUTURES

COSMOPOLITICAL FUTURES, THE ANTHROPOCENIC HUMAN Cosmopolitical Futures, The Anthropocenic Human series reflects my long time interest and research in foundational studies in theories of quantum physics and the nature of nature and the properties of living matter. In recent projects...

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STEM

Recent on-going artworks are based on an EPRSC funded, Pathways to Impact (PiA) residency at the University of Southampton in the School of Medicine on Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine exploring the use of stem cells in the area...

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Black Lace

Produced as part of an international contemporary art and craft exhibition, Black Lace is a site-sensitive video and sound installation commissioned for the UK Crafts Council 50/50 funded international lace textile exhibition, Lost in Lace, for the Birmingham City...

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Not Knowing - DNA in Education - APG @ Raven Row

Invitation from artist Barbara Steveni to participate within an international group Sculpture (a term used by the Artists Placement Group in 1971) to denote a discursive/panel/discussion/seminar/conference-like intervention into an exhibition programme as part of the current APG exhibition at Raven...

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ART + SCIENCE NOW

2010, INTERNATIONAL THAMES AND HUDSON BOOK PUBLICATION - ART + SCIENCE NOW Art/Science convergence as a major arena of emergence in 21st century art. Editor : Professor Dr. Stephen Wilson, San Francisco State University Publisher: Thames and Hudson, 200 +...

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Crossing Over

Cocoon is a dual video projection installation developed 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 were installed throughout the newly refurbished...

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JAM

CO-PRODUCER - REGIONAL EVENT FOR THE BRITISH SCIENCE FESTIVAL 2009 JAM ! – ART, SCIENCE AND BEYOND Concept, development, production and venue management in collaboration with Adrian Holme for Art, Science Culture Research Cluster with consultancy from Bronagh Ferran. Jam...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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GENESIS - The Art of Creation

Exhibition of installation, Tremor within international group exhibition, Genesis - The Art of Creation, Zentrum Paul Klee, Berne, Switzerland. Genesis – The Art of Creation was an international exhibition located at the PAUL KLEE MUSEUM in Bern, Switzerland and curated...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Category: R & D

COSMOPOLITICAL FUTURES

COSMOPOLITICAL FUTURES, THE ANTHROPOCENIC HUMAN Cosmopolitical Futures, The Anthropocenic Human series reflects my long time interest and research in foundational studies in theories of quantum physics and the nature of nature and the properties of living matter. In recent projects...

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STEM

Recent on-going artworks are based on an EPRSC funded, Pathways to Impact (PiA) residency at the University of Southampton in the School of Medicine on Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine exploring the use of stem cells in the area...

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Black Lace

Produced as part of an international contemporary art and craft exhibition, Black Lace is a site-sensitive video and sound installation commissioned for the UK Crafts Council 50/50 funded international lace textile exhibition, Lost in Lace, for the Birmingham City...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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....

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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....

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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...

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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...

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Category: Work

COSMOPOLITICAL FUTURES

COSMOPOLITICAL FUTURES, THE ANTHROPOCENIC HUMAN Cosmopolitical Futures, The Anthropocenic Human series reflects my long time interest and research in foundational studies in theories of quantum physics and the nature of nature and the properties of living matter. In recent projects...

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STEM

Recent on-going artworks are based on an EPRSC funded, Pathways to Impact (PiA) residency at the University of Southampton in the School of Medicine on Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine exploring the use of stem cells in the area...

Read on »

Black Lace

Produced as part of an international contemporary art and craft exhibition, Black Lace is a site-sensitive video and sound installation commissioned for the UK Crafts Council 50/50 funded international lace textile exhibition, Lost in Lace, for the Birmingham City...

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Bite Size - Dark Space

Produced for Bite Size, Miniature Textiles an International group-touring exhibition devised by Prof Lesley Millar. Black Lace, Dark Space, is a miniature textile work. A fragment of 19th Century black silk Chantilly lace embedded on metal disk and thinly...

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INSIDE (ARTE E CIENCIA) - Cocoon

INSIDE (ARTE E CIENCIA) The INSIDE [art and science] international group exhibition gathered 22 artists that, in different ways and through a variety of media, interact with science, from biology to artificial intelligence or robotics. Curated by artist Leonel Moura...

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Crossing Over

Cocoon is a dual video projection installation developed 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 were installed throughout the newly refurbished...

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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 EVOLUTION HAUTE COUTURE: ART AND SCIENCE IN THE POST-BIOLOGICAL AGE Curated by Dmitry Bulatov...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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GENESIS - The Art of Creation

Exhibition of installation, Tremor within international group exhibition, Genesis - The Art of Creation, Zentrum Paul Klee, Berne, Switzerland. Genesis – The Art of Creation was an international exhibition located at the PAUL KLEE MUSEUM in Bern, Switzerland and curated...

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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...

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The Imagination of Matter

Work that interprets the cultural significance of maize, drawing together themes of mythology, archaeology and plant genetics.

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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