Contemporary fine artist based in North East Scotland
Kate
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Painting Music is Touring
March – 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 is on tour funded by Creative Scotland, with 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).
Women in Tech Aberdeen presents: A Tribute to Ada Lovelace Through Art and AI
6-8pm 27 Feb 2025
ONE Tech Hub Aberdeen
Using cutting-edge AI techniques, PAInting Music demonstrates the interplay between music and visual art while sparking discussions about pressing topics such as bias in AI and the role of women in tech. This thought-provoking evening is designed to inspire, educate and celebrate the achievements of women in technology, both past and present.
Kathleen Jamie & Painting Music
6 – 730pm 18 March 2025
A live performance featuring new poetry from Kathleen Jamie and music created by AI from live drawings by Kate Steenhauer.
a hybrid event
Painting Music at European Chatbot Conference
19 – 20th March 2025
Painting Music is giving an end of conference live performance. Painting Music Sketch Pad is also showcased for Audicence to play with.
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 The Promise this film was created to capture the lived experience of birth parents who have lost care of their children, in
The Promise
Painting Music with Kate Steenhauer
26 March 2025
St Machar Academy, Aberdeen, AB24 3YZ
Join local artist Kate Steenhauer as she demonstrates her project Painting Music, which harnesses the power of Artificial Intelligence to create original music in response to live drawing, with the opportunity for the audience to have a go! Kate will also share images from her new artist book which pays tribute to the mathematician and computer pioneer Ada Lovelace.
All are welcome to this free event but please book your ticket to confirm attendance.
In partnership with Explorathon.
Painting Music & Ada Lovelace
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’.
Funded by Aberdeen City Council Creative Awards & Aberdeen Events in partnership with Explorathon.
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...