KAT SURYNA
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photo by Adrian Zoltan

I am a nomadic/international researcher, artist, event organizer, and designer with an extensive background in philosophy of science and Science and Technology Studies, or STS, encompassing both academic research and teaching.

My fine art focuses on the human body, queer identity, and life in megacities. My media art deals with cultural heritage, media literacy, and science communication. My artwork has been exhibited in Estonia, Hungary, Austria, Hong Kong, and Denmark.

As a researcher, I investigate various interactions between artistic work and scholarly research, particularly the potential of transdisciplinary practices at the intersection of art, science, and technology to boost science communication, foster science literacy and technoscientific innovation, as well as factors and settings facilitating or hindering these contributions. I am also interested in strategic marketing and the construction of imaginaries during the articulation work in emergent sciences, as well as the theory and practice of live marketing.

As an event organizer and curator, I prioritize diversity, inclusion, and the quality of work over artists' treatises. I enjoy designing event concepts and programs on complex, challenging topics and seek to achieve a variety of perspectives, participant profiles, genres, and interpretations of the event themes.

Outside of art and academia, I am a master of project coordination (incl. event management), communications, and live marketing (both B2B and B2C).

EXHIBITIONS

  • (forthcoming) “Illumination,” featured in Metro for Virtual (a virtual group exhibition), Hong Kong.
  • ​September 7-9, 2023, “Undressing Mirror,” featured in Arse Elektronika 2023: Sexponential. Damen & Herrenstraße DH5, Linz, Austria.
  • March 17 – March 25, 2023. "Guardians of Budapest and Vienna," featured in Next Comic Festival. Damen & Herrenstraße DH5, Linz, Austria.
  • December 12, 2022 – January 7, 2023. "Quietude," featured in the 2022-2023 Winter Edition of Lotsremark Project (group exhibition). Lotsremark Projects, Basel, Switzerland.
  • May 10 – 11, 2022. "Rumble in the Sea," featured in Micro POM Aalborg Edition. Transition Regimes: Cultures of Media Art (group exhibition). CREATE, Aalborg, Denmark.
  • July 5 – 18, 2021. "Presence," featured in And the Ship Sails On: art.practice.research (group exhibition). Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre, Hong Kong.
  • April 16 – May 14, 2021.  "Wachauer Weinreben," featured in Wachau: Augenweide & Lebensraum (group exhibition). Daliko Galerie, Krems, Austria.
  • March 10 – April 6, 2021. "Quietude," featured in FUTURE MEMORIES. Utopia Dystopia Nature (group exhibition). Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, Hong Kong.
  • October 18-27, 2019. Wachauer Weinreben &  Mzansi (solo exhibition). Josef Strohmayer Gallerie, Stein a.d. Donau, Austria. 
  • May 9-30, 2019. Mzansi (solo exhibition), Afro Chic. Krems a.d. Donau, Austria. 
  • January 18 – February 5, 2018. "Landscapes of Mind" (in collaboration with RSM), featured in Art IN Academia (group exhibition). The Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives (OSA), Budapest, Hungary.
  • August – September 2014. Déjà Rêvé (solo exhibition). Punane Puu, Tallinn, Estonia.
  • May 28-June 10, 2014. "Oiwa, Artenion, Tagetes" & "Coelvm Stellatvm" (in collaboration with RSM) & "Déjà Rêvé," featured in Planetario: Observaciones Estelares Especulativas (group exhibition). Y Gallery. Tartu, Estonia.
  • May 15-30, 2014. Dorado/Lacerta tähtkujud (collaboration with Rodrigo Guzman Serrano). Science Centre AHHAA. Tartu, Estonia. 

RESIDENCIES, PRESENTATIONS & OTHER

  • January 2024. "Rumble in the Deep Sea," talk-performance featured in T Fuckhead & Friends, Theater am Werk, Vienna, Austria.
  • April 2023. "“Littered with Life”: A case of engaged STS facilitating the public understanding of the socio-technical infrastructure of deep-seabed mining," presentation. Generative STS: Creating Terrestrial Connections through Art andAlternative Senses, Toronto, Canada.
  • November 2018 - January 2019. Research residency, Center for Subjectivity Research, Copenhagen University, Copenhagen. Denmark.
  • November 2018. "Agents without Agency: Artificial Intelligence as Artistic Medium" (with Rodrigo Guzman Serrano), presentation. Taboo–Transgression–Transcendence in Art & Science. UNAM and Centro de Cultura Digital. Mexico City, Mexico.
  • October 2018. "Science-Art beyond Education and Illustration" and "Computer Creativity and the Use of AI in Science and Art Production." Lectures to Ph.D. and M.A. students. Interface Cultures, University of Art and Design Linz, Austria.
  • September 2018. "Don’t Abide by Intuition but Explain It: Illusionism As a Successor to Eliminativism," presentation. Salzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy SOPhiA, Salzburg, Austria.
  • August - October 2018. Research and TA residency. Interface Cultures, University of Art and Design Linz and the Ars Electronica Archives, Linz, Austria.
  • May 2018. "Delete ‘Persons’, Insert ‘Information-Processing Systems’: Art and the Machinistic Discourse of Computationalism" (with Rodrigo Guzman Serrano), presentation. EVA-Politics of the Machines, Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • ​April 2018. "The use of AIs (GOFAI, CA, GANs) in the study and production of art," panel discussion. Kunst belebt Wirtschaft #13: Selbstportrait und künstliche Intelligenz in der Medienkunst, Oberbank Donau-Forum, Linz, Austria.
  • October 2017. "A Feeling of Clarification: Neurodocetism in a ‘Thoroughly Naturalistic’ Philosophy," presentation. 10th In-house Philosophy Graduate Conference, CEU, Department of Philosophy, Budapest, Hungary.
  • October 2016. "What Does the Strongly Naturalized Phenomenology Achieve in Cognitive Sciences?" presentation. 9th In-house Philosophy Graduate Conference, CEU, Department of Philosophy, Budapest, Hungary.
  • 2015. "Between a Felt and Constructed Self," presentation. 8th In-house Philosophy Graduate Conference, CEU, Department of Philosophy, Budapest, Hungary.
  • June 2014. Trükimuuseum (Estonian Printing Museum). Artist in Residence. Tartu, Estonia.
  • May 2014. "Print your own nocturnal skies." Workshop on monotype printing technique at the Estonian Printing Museum. Tartu, Estonia.
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