Staff Profile:
- Name:
- Dr Kate Allen
- Job Title:
- Lecturer
- Responsibilities:
- Studio and Seminar Lecturer
- Project partner with Creator Project
- Co Investigator 19th Step Research Project
- Areas of Interest:
My main interests are Sculpture, multidisciplinary performance, collaborative community public art projects and digital media. I also work with immersive virtual reality collaborating with the ACET Dept. http://acet.rdg.ac.uk
- Research groups / Centres:
- Publications:
Postgraduate Supervision:
I welcome enquiries from prospective postgraduate students who would like to work on part practice research projects in the area of digital media, immersive virtual reality, sculpture and community/socially engaged practice. I currently joint supervise a project exploring OCD and artificial intelligence in a Fine Art context.
Publications:
Selected Projects
Access to Heritage Project: Speke Hall Sensory Trail funded by Arts Council, Awards for All, the National Trust and Access to Heritage project. Liverpool Mencap Commissionhttp://accesstoheritageproject.blogspot.com/
The Nineteenth Step: EPSRC funded research performances 09.04.08 Roehampton University, London, 11.04.08 Boundstone Community College, West Sussex, 12.04.08 Laban, London http://www.the19thstep.co.uk/
Virtual architectural project: 'Second Life@the Design Museum' Commission for RIBA Architecture Week at the Design Museum London, 2007. http://www.architectureweek.org.uk/projects.asp?RegionID=3&ProjectID=16
www.grangeparklife.com public consultation commission, Northampton County Council 2007
Auraproject. AHRC Small Grant in the Creative & Performing Arts 2006-07
'Lightbox Project 4', commission London Bridge, http://www.guystreetpark.com/ 2006
GPS4aknownpace, performance part of 'Sound Junction' at the Studio Drama Theatre, University of Sheffield, 22nd November 2006
Bartonwall: commission for Fusion Oxfords Community art agency www.bartonwall.com
Deadspace a Special Place Sculpture: Barton East Oxford, 6 October 2006. Participatory signing of wall Barton: 6 October 2006 Modern Art Oxford, Café, 19 September–15 October 2006.
'Freedom Cycle Park' http://www.freedomcycleproject.org.uk/ County Hall London 2006
'artchangesbracknell' http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/documents/projects/phpa2TjuM.pdf Member of a public consultation team and mentor for placements of 10 students from the University of Readings Fine Art Dept. SEEDA funded project for Bracknell Council 2005
'alter' public commission Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery & The Lickey Hills 2003 http://www.publicartonline.org.uk/archive/casestudies/galleryintrees/description.php#item04
Books
Essay 'How Green is our Space', Space Between People edited by Stephan Doesinger, ISBN 978-3-7913-3991-7 Prestel, 2008.
Essay 'Creating and using virtual reality: a guide for the arts and humanities' ISBN 1 84217 040 6 http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/guides/vr_guide VRML case study 2003
Conferences and Symposiums:
Meet me in Second Life, performance presented at DHRA 07 Conference Dartington College 9-12 September 2007. http://www.dartington.ac.uk/drha07/papers/abstract.asp?uid=56
'Meeting with Borges in Virtual Space' Symposium: University of Roehampton 29 - 30 Sept. 2006.
Performance in Transit performance at Transversalities Conference University of Reading September 2005.
