Kathrin Hunze
As a media and visual artist, Kathrin Hunze works in an artistic and research-based manner within an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary field of tension between art, design, technology, social, and natural sciences. Her artistic work explores the mechanisms and processes of new technologies and their effects on chaotic, nonlinear, and complex systems. She is particularly interested in the ethical aspects of how technological developments alter our perceptions and interactions within society, as well as the new narratives and aesthetic possibilities that arise from these changes.
The audiovisual image is a fundamental component of Hunze's work, serving as an interface between mediated realities within the historical and sociocultural developments of humanity, nature, and machines. This approach gives rise to various utopian or dystopian stagings, which combine the media diversity of her work through installations, performances, sound/video essays, objects, websites, apps, and prints. These elements create critically engaging, immersive audiovisual experiential spaces.
full CV
Hunze studied communication design with a focus on time-based media and sound design at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, 2016, is a graduate of the Art and Media programme at the Berlin University of the Arts, 2019, and a master student of the Art and Media programme at the Berlin University of the Arts, 2020. She was Artist in Residence at Q21 Vienna for Paraflows, 2021, Artist in Residence at the Academy of Applied Arts Vienna, 2020 and at the Institute for Electronic Music and Acoustics (IEM) Graz, 2019.
As a lecturer she teaches for the departments of art and media, fashion design, computation & design as well as communication design at the Berlin University of the Arts, the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences and the Berlin University of the Popular Arts.
Her works have been exhibited in Berlin, Linz, London, Shanghai and New York. She is board and founding member of the multichrom.ev- Association Art & Artistic Research Advancing Societal Openness and the center for artistic research.ev. She is a member of the media art association Berlin, where she she held a position as a board member until 2024. She is part of the collectives nox&honig, raumperspektive and S4NTP. Her media art installations and performances have been presented at the CTM Festival Vorspiel/Transmediale, Ars Electronica and Centre Pompidou - West Bund Museum (Shanghai). She lives and works in Berlin.
Collective
nox&honig
The artist collective KateHack (Kathrin Hunze & Thomas Hack) deals with themes at the interface of science and art. During their collaboration a special focus on artificial real time systems which embody interactions between living creatures and environments emerged. Their works analyse the boundaries and similarities of artificial and natural systems.
Thomas Hack has studied Theoretical Physics in Bonn and Hamburg, where he did his PhD. After being a Postdoc in Hamburg, Genoa and Leipzig, he specialised in Data Science and Machine Learning. Together with Kathrin Hunze he is pursuing generative projects at the interface of science and art.
Raumperspektive Collective
As Artistic Researchers Angela McArthur & Kathrin Hunze have been working for the last 5 years with different collaborations with scientists. After they met at the respective residences at IEM in Graz they decided to form a collective, named RaumperspektiveCollective. The Collective has a focus on artistic research where we critically examine new technologies and their impact on society. With an experimental approach, they investigate new technologies and question them audiovisually, with particular attention to spatiality.
