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...
a supermarket in california - 08/12/2025
ahhh i moved house, was made redundant and had my partner’s birthday. so it’s been a little busy, hence the blog delay!
this week i’m going to talk about my initial forary’s into game making. recently, i’ve been playing around with non-linear writing, partly as an extension of some recent...
self genealogy - 23/11/2025
self genealogy
recently, i’ve been thinking about the construction of my current self. how the present me came to exist, in addition to their relations to the versions of myself that came before. part of this felt relational to a kind of genealogical destination of selfhood. that i exist as...
topping from the lap - 16/11/2025
sex, games and transexualism
(disclaimer: i use the term ‘transexualism’ as, to me, it describes the radical and jagged edges of gender, that incapsulates its political and revolutionary potential. for me, ‘transgender’ feels too comfortable, too malleable and too marketable as a term built in response to transness entering public...
politics / friction / trans identity - 18/09/2025
I’ve taken a pause in recent years from discussing or really commenting on my transness on public platforms, mostly from an exhaustion with the ways in which its dominated my adult life, but also because I’ve not really known what to say or how to comment on things. Reading <a...
postcards and choreography - 21/01/2025
a reintroduction to my world the past few years has been the postcard. i don’t particularly remember receiving many as a kid but i do remember sending them whenever we moved (and we moved a lot!), normally to mark the move and make a gesture at staying in touch that...
i miss the kitchen - 24/11/2024
back in 2018, fresh out of a postgrad in experimental music and struggling to make rent, i got a job working in paradise slice, a pizza shop located on brick lane, east londons tourist hub and food street (note, far from my favourite, just the most popular). paradise slice was...
i want to be an artist? - 24/10/2024
recently, i’ve been re-reading pedagogy of the oppressed, the 1960’s Marxist analysis of pedagogy and oppression dynamics by brazilian scholar Paulo Freire. i read excerpts of it years ago while borrowing my ex’s university lecture print outs and going through the reading lists. studying a music degree, our reading...
citation and credit - 20/10/2024
recently i’ve been thinking about citation and influence, how we credit the ideas, works and people that inspire us. i think we sorely lack a comprehensive and representative language for how we mark the turning points of the creative process.
this is part of my love for the social media...
protest touches - 27/09/2024
Curiosity - at a Palestine / Lebanon protest, me and my partner had two encounters that sparked an interesting confluence. One was with a friend of my partners, she’d just had a long term break up and we had a long chat about the difficulties of transitional time. How everything...
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