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Kathleen McDermott is an interdisciplinary artist with a background in installation, prop-making and sculpture, currently based in Brooklyn, NY. She combines her knowledge of fabrication with open source hardware to build a language of absurdity that merges new media, design, performance, and video. She is interested in technologies that are not productive, robots badly suited to absurd purposes and electronic creations beyond her control.

She received a BFA from Cornell University, MFA in Creative Media from City University of Hong Kong and Ph.D. in Electronic Arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is currently an Industry Assistant Professor of Integrated Design & Media at NYU Tandon. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Museum of Art and Design in New York, The Tides Institute and Museum of Art in Maine, the Wende Museum in LA, and Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria; and has been featured in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post, Fast Company, and Dezeen. In addition to her artistic practice, she is an advocate for accessible technology education who actively seeks opportunities to give workshops, collaborate with community partners, and shares tutorials for working with DIY electronics at urbanarmor.org.

Recent Press
A recent profile in Hyundai's Art + Technology Series: