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Artist Statement
My work explores the shifting boundaries of reality, perception, and consciousness. I investigate the friction between actual and virtual spheres, exploring how they are embedded in, and emerge from, digital technologies. By constructing immersive digital and physical environments, I create a hyperreality that reveals how sociopolitical power structures both fragment and homogenize the individual.
A central element of my practice is the reclamation of female sexuality in the digital age. By utilizing my own digital communication, voice, and body as raw material, I navigate the interdependence between technology and the corporeal. This process creates a deliberate tension between intimate personal narratives and the systematic schisms of the 21st century—a juxtaposition mirrored in my material choices. I synthesize fluid, tactile elements with the cold, luminous interfaces of our digital landscape.
My methodology involves a deliberate friction between complex software—including gaming engines, 3D modeling, and AI—and accessible, low-tech applications. By subverting the sentimentality of personal storytelling, I suggest a total collapse of subject-object, spacetime, and the boundaries between the actual and the virtual. Ultimately, I conjure a space where technology is not viewed as separate from the human experience, but as an integral part of it—offering a critical, generative perspective that unfolds new possibilities for perception.
Bio
Kathi Schulz is a German new media artist based in Los Angeles and Berlin. She holds an MFA in Art and Technology from the California Institute of the Arts and an MFA from the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Her work is situated at the intersection of digital technology and traditional media, examining the sociopolitical structures that define contemporary perception.
Schulz has exhibited her work internationally at institutions and galleries including the Torrance Art Museum, Blum & Poe, UTA Artist Space, and the Japanese American Cultural & Community Center in Los Angeles; transmediale in Berlin; Ars Electronica in Austria; and the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, K21 Kunstsammlung, and Museum Kunstpalast in Germany.
Her practice is characterized by a multidisciplinary approach that spans Artificial Intelligence, VR/AR, multimedia installation, and sculpture. By investigating the entanglement of actual and virtual spheres, Schulz explores how digitality fragments and homogenizes both the individual and the collective culture.
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Artist Statement
My work explores the shifting boundaries of reality, perception, and consciousness. I investigate the friction between actual and virtual spheres, exploring how they are embedded in, and emerge from, digital technologies. By constructing immersive digital and physical environments, I create a hyperreality that reveals how sociopolitical power structures both fragment and homogenize the individual.
A central element of my practice is the reclamation of female sexuality in the digital age. By utilizing my own digital communication, voice, and body as raw material, I navigate the interdependence between technology and the corporeal. This process creates a deliberate tension between intimate personal narratives and the systematic schisms of the 21st century—a juxtaposition mirrored in my material choices. I synthesize fluid, tactile elements with the cold, luminous interfaces of our digital landscape.
My methodology involves a deliberate friction between complex software—including gaming engines, 3D modeling, and AI—and accessible, low-tech applications. By subverting the sentimentality of personal storytelling, I suggest a total collapse of subject-object, spacetime, and the boundaries between the actual and the virtual. Ultimately, I conjure a space where technology is not viewed as separate from the human experience, but as an integral part of it—offering a critical, generative perspective that unfolds new possibilities for perception.
Bio
Kathi Schulz is a German new media artist based in Los Angeles and Berlin. She holds an MFA in Art and Technology from the California Institute of the Arts and an MFA from the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Her work is situated at the intersection of digital technology and traditional media, examining the sociopolitical structures that define contemporary perception.
Schulz has exhibited her work internationally at institutions and galleries including the Torrance Art Museum, Blum & Poe, UTA Artist Space, and the Japanese American Cultural & Community Center in Los Angeles; transmediale in Berlin; Ars Electronica in Austria; and the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, K21 Kunstsammlung, and Museum Kunstpalast in Germany.
Her practice is characterized by a multidisciplinary approach that spans Artificial Intelligence, VR/AR, multimedia installation, and sculpture. By investigating the entanglement of actual and virtual spheres, Schulz explores how digitality fragments and homogenizes both the individual and the collective culture.
Download Exhibition List