Kathryn Burns
Kathryn Burns uses video, audio, computer-controlled environments, electronics, sensors, and many other technologies, as well as performance, to create media artworks and installations. Her experience in media arts has led her to hold curatorial, consulting and academic positions. She has taught as part of the Media Arts / Digital Technologies Program at the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary, in the Media Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Calgary and as an Art Educator at the Edmonton Art Gallery. She holds an MFA (1995) and an MA (1993) from the University of Calgary as well as a BFA from the University of Alberta (1985).
Kathryn, or Kay, Burns is a writer and regular contributor to Galleries West, Alberta Views, Where Magazine Calgary and several other catalogues, newsletters and newspapers. She has been involved with The Works Art and Design Festival in Edmonton as a program manager and exhibiting artist and has served on the board of directors for the Mountain Standard Time Performative Art Festival in Calgary. She is active in the arts community in Alberta, serving on committees, panels and juries, and she has held a number of residencies, including — among others — at the Banff Centre for the Arts, Gushul Studio in Crowsnest Pass, the Prairie North Artists Residency at Grande Prairie Regional College, the Ted Harrison Artist Retreat Society Residency in Crag Lake Yukon, and the Elsewhere Artist Collaborative Residency in Greensboro, North Carolina. She was a founding member of The Ministry of Walking Collective in Calgary and is active in the EMMAX Collective in Calgary and in the reinstating of the Flat Earth Society of Canada. She performs internationally as the fictitious archivist, ethnologist and historical lecturer Iris Taylor. Her work has been exhibited or performed in Canada, the United States and Ireland. Katherine was born in Simcoe, Ontario and lives in Fogo Island, Newfoundland.
Compiled 2014
Kathryn, or Kay, Burns is a writer and regular contributor to Galleries West, Alberta Views, Where Magazine Calgary and several other catalogues, newsletters and newspapers. She has been involved with The Works Art and Design Festival in Edmonton as a program manager and exhibiting artist and has served on the board of directors for the Mountain Standard Time Performative Art Festival in Calgary. She is active in the arts community in Alberta, serving on committees, panels and juries, and she has held a number of residencies, including — among others — at the Banff Centre for the Arts, Gushul Studio in Crowsnest Pass, the Prairie North Artists Residency at Grande Prairie Regional College, the Ted Harrison Artist Retreat Society Residency in Crag Lake Yukon, and the Elsewhere Artist Collaborative Residency in Greensboro, North Carolina. She was a founding member of The Ministry of Walking Collective in Calgary and is active in the EMMAX Collective in Calgary and in the reinstating of the Flat Earth Society of Canada. She performs internationally as the fictitious archivist, ethnologist and historical lecturer Iris Taylor. Her work has been exhibited or performed in Canada, the United States and Ireland. Katherine was born in Simcoe, Ontario and lives in Fogo Island, Newfoundland.
Compiled 2014