kat's blog
hi! I’m kat, i'm a multi-media artist and writer.
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A few years ago my partner Agnes and I read a text by the game developer Stephen Gillmurphy called “personal aesthetics”, in it he describes the ending of his game “magic wand”. The whole game you pursue the titular “magic wand” and once you get:
“it makes a weird...
why a laptop orchestra? - 18/03/2026
I worry that discussions of technology, particularly laptops or personal phones, have distilled to lean closer and closer to an analysis of online infrastructure, than anything direct relevant to the machines that enable interfacing with it. Yes there is a lot of talk around Data Centre’s and the broader concerns...
hunger - 23/02/2026
Hunger asks audiences to relationally understand robotics through the lens of desire and desperation. At its centre is dog, an AI-powered humanoid robot without ocular sensors, that uses a localised mesh network and olfaction to conceptualise physical space and boundaries. Initially, dog will twitch and gesture, as it processes its...
family mart - 27/01/2026
my dad told me he was dying. not in any way thats urgent.
more a shorter life expectancy than planned.
i’ve been feeling numb since.
i write this while i’m eating noodles, so my metaphors are food based and the feeling looks like the broth. slightly cloudy but...
speaking to the soldiers - 10/01/2026
When I was 18, I got a job on a military base (the prior Military Hospital at Headley Court), working between the kitchens, cafe and bar area. I grew up around this type of infrastructure and so found it easy talking to people and sharing experiences. There is a barrier...
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