Contemporary fine artist based in North East Scotland
Kate
Steenhauer
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Current and Upcoming Events
Creative AI Music & Audio Pilot Project
22 Nov 2023– 22 April 2024
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 is engaged with the Creative AI Music & Audio Pilot Project Programme that is part of the Creative Informatics, which aims to bring world-class creative industries and tech sector together, utilising innovative data-driven technologies to develop ground-breaking new products, businesses and experiences.
VAS RSA: In the bell - Annie
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
16 Feb – 13 March 2024
A 20-minute film screening; In the bell – Annie is a fusion of live art, music, poetry and spoken word, wherein Annie ‘finally’ shaves off her beard, initially acting as a shield against transphobia and allowing her some limited privilege of the patriarchy.
VAS RSA: On the runway
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
16 Feb – 13 March 2024
On the runway captures the fashion industry through drawings, models’ voices, music, and highly detailed imagery of Dame Zandra Rhodes‘ bold prints and colourful patterns from the exhibition 50 Years of Fabulous.
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...