Biography
Kimberley creates media art, curates events, and researches in design and technology. In 2019 she completed a practice-based MPhil thesis at UNSW Art & Design in Australia, entitled “Innovating Electrofringe: A Distributed Curatorial Platform for Electronic Art”, while she was directing the arts organisation and annual festival, Electrofringe.
Previously to this, Kimberley did a BSc in Art & Technology from Saxion University in the Netherlands, where she and her collaborator, David Foerster, developed the software-based public art project “KaleidOk: Visually Communicating Emotions from Spoken Word”, contributing to the Observe interactive public screens project in 2015. Prior to academia, Kimberley trained as an apprentice multimedia designer for Human ventures before launching her business in VJ’ing and media production which she practised in Australia, Estonia, Germany, UK, and the Netherlands. Over her travels, Kimberley has produced participatory curatorial outputs and workshops at CellSpace in San Francisco, Polymer Culture Factory in Tallinn, Totaldobže in Riga, VJ meetings across Berlin, and she has created workshop programs for social ventures in Sweden and Australia. Additionally, Kimberley performs audiovisual art and poetry as Disaster Girl at festivals internationally.
Kimberley is growing concerned with the consumption and waste of technology in the creative industries and how this is not a sustainable culture in our rapidly changing environment. As part of the PhD in Emergent Technologies and Media Arts Practices at CU Boulder that Kimberley will start in August 2019, she will research a peer-to-peer framework for investigating the social, cultural, and technological dimensions of ecologically conscious, electronic media arts practices. This would involve developing a platform for both online and IRL exchanges of ideas, data and sustainable hardware.
