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Working Title: Digital Art Curriculum – Cat Bluemke

Cat Bluemke responds to questions posed through the Working Title: Digital Art Curriculum with a digital comic.

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Feature image: Cat Bluemke and Jonathan Carroll, Reality Crossing, Augmented Reality, 2021. Image: Natalie Logan.

Image description: Documentation of an art installation. A flatscreen monitor hangs on the wall in portrait orientation, with wall drawings forming a loose map extending to the right. In the corner of the room, another map is painted on the wall. A low, square, white plinth sits in front on the floor with a yellow and blue map drawn on top. 


Cat Bluemke is an artist working with game design, performance, and expanded reality. Often working through collaboration with Jonathan Carroll as the collectives SpekWork Studio or Tough Guy Mountain, her projects use mechanics of play to examine technology’s influence on contemporary labour. Exhibiting across Canada and internationally, she has shown recently with Rhizome and the New Museum’s virtual reality platform and the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale with the American Pavilion. Her practice has been featured in Hyperallergic, Canadian Art, 032c, the National Post, and Blackflash and Our Times magazines. She has received funding from Rhizome, the Canada Council for the Arts, and provincial and municipal arts councils.

Since 2019 she has worked for the MacKenzie Art Gallery in Regina, SK, Treaty 4 Territory. Through the gallery she has spearheaded several digital arts programs, including co-curating the Minecraft-based artist residency Ender Gallery. Currently, she is developing their Digital Exhibitions Toolkit project through a Canada Council for the Arts Digital Strategy Fund grant. [www.catbluemke.com]



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