Contemporary fine artist based in North East Scotland
Kate Steenhauer
Featured Work
Painting Music
Live Production
In the Bell
Live Production
Hedda
Live Production
‘announcements
Connected Innovators’ Award
Creative Edinburgh and Creative Informatics Mar 21 – Mar 22
Painting Music creates music from live painted drawings using artificial intelligence. This research and development project began in 2018 in collaboration with AI developers Dr. Starkey and Jack Caven from Aberdeen University. The AI algorithm is based on the type of learning used by the human brain. The portable standalone system enables live broadcasting of the artist’s practice through any physical and digital platform.
Current and Upcoming Events
Visual Arts Scotland Annual Exhibition
Jan 2022 – online film screening of In the bell
In the bell began with Bethany whose incredible career and identity were at odds, as a transgender woman with a background in military and commercial diving. Inspired we looked to support her story with other voices, exploring the spectrum of experiences in grappling with societal heteronormative standards and gender presentation.
Compass Gallery
178 West Regent Street, Glasgow G2 4RL
Featured Artist for 2022 – Kate Steenhauer
Compass Gallery is one of Scotland’s longest established contemporary art galleries, renowned for is support of talented new graduates as well as more established artists.
Royal Scottish Academy Edinburgh
Nov 1 – Nov 23 Society of Scottish Artists’ Exhibition
Makin’ bread is a 15-minute film in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The film combines performance, live drawings, verbatim and music. The work focusses on 91-year old Dorothy at Maryfield West Care Home in Aberdeen.
Projects In Depth
Latest Productions
The making of a feminist
The making of a feminist is inspired by the complex entanglement of human and computer 'intelligence' in a time of crisis, in collaboration with Improviser Maria Sappho and Prof. Dubravka Pokrajac based at the University of Aberdeen. ’Invisible Women’, a book by...
The player piano
The Player Piano draws inspiration from perforated piano rolls used in old pianolas. Sequential rolls of paper at the keyboard flows and rolls out gradually whilst Composer Ross Whyte performs and Visual Artist Kate Steenhauer draws, creating a dialogue which consists...
The shelter
The Shelter is an interdisciplinary collaboration combining live drawing in Japanese ink, a multi-voiced verbatim performed by Creative Writer Shane Strachan, and original musical compositions and soundscape by Ross Whyte. The Shelter reflects contemporary life around...