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Katherine Behar | STUDIO: 55 Nassau #2E | Brooklyn, NY 11222 | kb [AT] katherinebehar [DOT] com
Katherine Behar is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York City. Her installations, performances, and videos mix low and high technologies to portray the condition of living sensuously in digital media.
Katherine has presented internationally at venues such as UNOACTU in Dresden, Germany, the Mediations Biennale in Poznan, Poland, De Balie Centre for Culture and Politics in Amsterdam, Netherlands, the Digital Live Art Festival in Leeds, UK, MoKS in Mooste, Estonia, Galata Perform in Istanbul, Turkey, The National Museum of Art in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, the Centre for Art Tapes in Halifax, Canada, and The Swiss Institute in Rome, Italy. Nationally, she has presented at venues including CANADA and PSi in New York, Galapagos, Monkey Town, CONFLUX and the D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival in Brooklyn, Chicago Cultural Center, Versionfest, Columbia College, Alogon Gallery, Tough Gallery, and Betty Rymer Gallery in Chicago, DiverseWorks in Houston, the Cleveland Performance Art Festival+Archives, and the Grand Rapids Urban Institute for Contemporary Art.
Katherine's ongoing projects include Disorientalism with Marianne M. Kim, and RSI with Ben Chang and Silvia Ruzanka. Disorientalism is a multimedia performance art collaboration that studies the disorienting effects of technologized labor, junk culture, and consumerism. RSI is an art and technology team that advocates for and designs irrational human-computer interfaces.
Katherine is Assistant Professor of New Media in the Department of Fine and Performing Arts at Baruch College, CUNY, and is the Digital Fellow at Art Journal, a publication of the College Art Association. She holds an MFA in Combined Media from the Department of Art at Hunter College, an MA in Media Ecology from the Department of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University, and a BFA in Studio Art from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1999-2003, Katherine was a founding artist and organizer at The Spareroom, a time arts cooperative in Chicago. Her work has been supported by the U.S. Consulate General in Leipzig, the Franklin Furnace Fund, the Illinois Arts Council, the Featured Performance Award from the Cleveland Performance Art Festival, and funding from the Department of Culture and Communication and the Steinhardt School of Education Graduate Student Organization at New York University.