Kathy Hinde (UK)
Participating Artist
With a background in visual art and music, Kathy Hinde creates work which combines audio and visual elements. Over the last few years much of her work has been collaborative, working with performers from various disciplines (eg musicians, dancers, theatre performers, live artists).
Kathy has experimented with methods of mixing images live, projected onto different surfaces (including large scale out-door projections) using multiple images, live camera feeds, attaching wireless cameras to performers and sampling and manipulating video from live cameras. She is interested in how the lo-tech can be combined with the hi-tech and has used super8 projections, old slide projectors, hand wound music boxes and toy pianos, alongside digitally manipulated images and sound.
Kathy’s solo and collaborative work has been shown across the UK, Europe, China and South America and she has collaborated with leading contemporary musicians and composers within the UK, such as Joanna MacGregor and Stephen Montague, the international choregrapher Jin Xing and currently is touring with Agrare.
Kathy’s N.I.P. interests
The main ideas that I would like to explore during N.I.P. are approaches to intuitive image mixing and generating systems to improvise with image - similar to how you would jam with a musical instrument in conjunction with sound and live performance.
Conceptually I am interested continuing to develop my work on site-specific performances, where the performer maybe ‘absent’ or remote. Other concepts, which I am exploring in my work include memory, confusion of past/present/future, revealing the invisible, mediated communication, audience involvement / interaction. In attending the N.I.P. 2007 workshops, I would like to learning more about the systems that the lead artists have used and how similar ideas such as ‘invisibility’ in Zach LIberman’s work or memory in Christina Kubish’s work and mediated communication in Michel Waisvisz work has been articulated and expressed.
My practice already involves collaborating with performers. N.I.P. would help me expand my current methods of working with image and sound in a live performance context. I would like to develop a more in depth knowledge of how I can use new technology in my work.
Having the opportunity to develop something over a long period of time with regular practical input would give me the rare opportunity to research current ideas and techniques in more depth.
As an artist I enjoy collaborating and value the experience of creating with other artists. N.I.P. provides the opportunity to work alongside a group of like-minded creative practitioners and gain critical feedback and support from distinguished lead artists. NIP opens up possibilities of new collaborations and exhibiting / showcasing opportunities.
Technologies that Kathy has used
Hardware: Vision mixer, digital video cameras, analogue cameras (cctv and wireless) mixed and sampled using a jitter patch. Live drawings using graphics tablet in photoshop.
Software: Final cut pro, Jitter (beginner), director (beginner),
Cubase, Ableton Live (some experience).