Before her tenure at SAIC, Katherine Bennett was creating interactive light environments. Feeling more and more limited by interactivity and her lack of programming knowledge, she engrossed herself in programming and sound to widen her visceral language. Continuing her interest in the non-physical and how it creates a presence among viewers, she began to widen these ideas of space to intangible spaces within the mind and the unconscious. Her latest environments deal with the terrain of memory- it’s absence, degradation and the new space that this loss provides for new experiences. She uses sound and light, facilitated by programming, to comment on the mental real estate that thought consumes.

Katherine earned her BA in Psychology from Ohio University, BFA in Sculpture from Wolverhampton University (UK) and MFA from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago. She has won grants from The Ohio Arts Council, the Puffin Foundation and The Illuminating and Engineering Society of North America. Her work has been featured in many exhibitions, including, the Indianapolis Arts Center, The Carnegie (Covington, KY), The Contemporary Arts Center (Cincinnati, Ohio) and The Eagle Works Gallery in England. She has performed in MindField Experiment’s Juxtapostion Arena and at the 404 Festival in Rosario, Argentina. Other honors include the Cincinnati Foundation Award, Excellence in Leadership Award, and residencies at Jentel, Vermont Studio Center and Weir Farm.