Kate Geck

Kate coordinates the 3rd and 4th year Specialisations courses in the Bachelor of Interior Design. She works with immersive technologies to explore emerging spatial and temporal realities within digital and sensory space. She also co-ordinates the Placements and Internships program in the Bachelor of Interior Design. She has exhibited in Australia and abroad, with funding and commissions from a range of organisations. Her research is focused on practice-led interventions with digital materialities, in particular the emerging relations between human + machine intelligence.

Kate is an artist currently living on unceded Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung land in Narrm/Melbourne in Australia. She works with textiles, neon, animation, machine learning, augmented reality and the internet. Her practice tends to the connections between humans and technology, exploring ways to materialise the seemingly immaterial nature of the digital. She is interested in network culture: working with code, installation and textiles to create interactive surfaces exploring thresholds between the physical and the digital. These surfaces are overloaded, saturated and glitchy, using network iconography and digital composition tropes. Invoking the language of the Internet, this aesthetic critiques a hyper mediated age, creating sites of respite and resistance that think through alternative agendas for networked technologies. Her recent work has been exploring a 'textillic' approach to creative practice with machine learning models. This uses textile language and practices to examine how interconnection, materiality and shared agency might become foregrounded in exchanges between human and machine intelligences.

Kate has worked with a range of creative clients on interactive surface design and immersive artworks. She has designed and delivered a range of technology oriented community arts projects with young people since 2008 with spaces such as Signal, Charcoal Lane, Social Studio, and within juvenile justice. She was the media artist at Artful Dodgers Studios from 2010 - 2017 where she developed the Spectrum of Practice model for community arts engagement and led the design and delivery of the interactive media program and facilities.