Looking for the Invisible:
ArtScience, fundamental research and the importance of reflection | Katarina Petrovic

From making a bodysuit for sexual pleasure in a church or translating Jupiter’s radio emissions into poetry, negating the Holy Bible or sonifying the void - Katarina’s work tends to provoke and question not only what we think we know, but what we imagine as well. Combining art, science and technology her practice explores the concept of creation as the problem of ultimate origin - the birth of cosmos or the emergence of something out of nothing. She is interested in the mysterious moment of appearance, the moment of invisible becoming visible, noise becoming a signal, random disturbance becoming meaningful information. In her work, Katarina creates systems and generative processes that intimately connect nature with language. She uses various media such as text, code, video and sound, and makes modular installations in online and offline space.

Artistic and scientific research both navigate the lands between what is known and what is imagined. On this border with the invisible we find various methods of inquiry that bring about new forms of knowledge, understanding and experience of the world and our position in it. In the keynote lecture for the Artistic Research Day Katarina will share her work in a performative lecture, reflecting on her ArtScience practice and development as well as open up the space for dialogue, exchange and imaginations of new frontiers for artistic research and practice with present students and researchers.

Katarina Petrović (NL/RS) is an artist and researcher working with language, computation and various physical phenomena including sound, vacuum, light and radio. She holds a MMus degree from ArtScience Interfaculty, Royal Conservatoire and Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague and an MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts, Belgrade. Katarina is an affiliated researcher at the trans-disciplinary research Centre Leo Apostel, Vrije Universiteit in Brussels and a guest lecturer at the postgraduate School of Thinking, VUB and the ArtScience Interfaculty in The Hague. She is the co-initiator of ArtScience Forum platform, feminist art radio Femkanje and is a member of an artist-run space Trixie The Hague.

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