Kate Nazemi

Class of 2006

Background
Roughly four years ago, I was an unhappy researcher reluctantly marching down a path in Educational Psychology, when I realized I was not valuing the work I was doing with my hands. Until this point, all of my creative work to a backseat to my professional work, and I decided it was time to make creative work professional. Mostly self-taught, but with some great courses in design and sculpture, I began my journey, and found some interesting work visualizing data for venture capital publications. I applied to the Dynamic Media Institute because I was looking for a unique experience that could reshape how I look at what I create. I hold a B.A. from Goucher College, and am working towards an M.F.A. in design at the Dynamic Media Institute at MassArt.

Interests
In response to a growing desire to relate a technologically driven medium such as ours to more human and emotional experiences, my work explores materiality in interface design through conceptual models for interactive installations. My premise for investigating body-oriented interfaces is based on the notion that greater physical action will move digital media into more interesting and complex places.

In addition to refining and better documenting my work currently seen on these pages, I am working on a way to contextualize media arts in an innovative digital archive in my major studio class this semester. I am interested in how we represent temporality in digital art, how we organize it, and how we experience it. For instance, while e-space works well to disseminate media art, it does not work well in framing it or allowing for more authentic representations of the content it delivers. I am interested to see if my archive can be organized by the senses required to interact with the work.

A prototype for an installation titled Communication aims to talk about the gap between internal and external language by engaging you in interactions where you can wade through language by pulling out the contents found in a series of...

In a piece titled Progress through Process, I am working to replace the mouse with a series of cranks that serve as an input device demanding greater work from participants to find meaning in a virtual painting. This piece...

Between explores how the visual and verbal languages work to define something and asks if it is possible to deconstruct a word to the point of abstraction to then visually interact with it in order to come to an...

Digital code is the requisite material used by scientists to process information and produce results, and now by artists who use it as a creative tool. Here, we find a link between two seemingly disparate disciplines. But the connection...