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
On the Runway
Current and Upcoming Events
Painting Music Production Launch
22 Nov 2024– 22 Dec 2025
PAINTING MUSIC is a company comprised of artist & filmmaker Kate Steenhauer and artificial intelligence (AI) developers Dr Starkey and Jack Caven. The team explores how cutting-edge AI techniques can facilitate multifaceted relationships between music and visual art.
PAINTING MUSIC has just completed a mini-tour with Scottish AI Alliance and has launched a brand new demo package based on live performances, audience interactive Apps, Art-STEM Cross-Over Workshops, and talks, for community outreach programmes, Science Festivals, Galleries, Museums, Healthcare Providers, creative, tech & educational platforms (such as schools).
Supporting Birth Parents to Scottish Parliament
2024 – 2025
Commissioned by the Corra Foundation and NHS Grampian Public Health Directorate.
In line with the ambitions of #ThePromise this film was created to capture the lived experience of birth parents who have lost care of their children, in
#ThePromise
The landscape of Intelligence
2024 – 2025
The Landscape of Intelligence is a limited-edition hand-made artist book with audio-visual display that pays tribute to computer pioneer Ada Lovelace. The book binds together a set of multi-layered prints based on drawings of machinery, punch cards, neural networks and quotes from Ada and her mother Annabella Byron, using etching and screen-printing. The book highlighting Ada’s vision about ‘a computer making music’.
Projects In Depth
Latest Productions
Tatties & typhoid ham
Tatties and Typhoid Ham is a fusion of live evolving visual art, music, poetry and spoken word, wherein three women born and bred in Aberdeen share their thoughts and experiences on being in lockdown during the typhoid outbreak in 1964 and their concurrent situation during the 2020 Coronavirus outbreak.
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...