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Joanna Kane

Edinburgh
Joanna Kane is a Scottish based visual artist working with photography, video and new media.
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Joanna Kane is a Scottish based visual artist working with photography, video and new media. Her work explores themes relating to portraiture and identity, often involving in-depth investigations of historical, scientific or technological archives and related subject matter.

Her practice is centred on stills photography, often incorporating elements of experimentation within digital media, film and video, and other media such as casting. She also has interests in still and time-based media in conjunction with performance, installation, theatre, poetry and literature. Her work includes The Somnambulists, a series of portraits based on photographs of phrenological life and death casts, shown at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery which was also the subject of a book.Her work is in the collections of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, MONA in Australia.and Private Collections.

A selection from the Somnambulists series was included in the Hayward Gallery touring exhibition The Russian Linesman curated by Mark Wallinge in 2009. Other work has included a new photography portrait series for Photo-ID, a Wellcome Trust funded exhibition about photography, science and identity, the Freud Museum, and an Alt-W award project  with New Media Scotland, Cloud People, a series of portraits and data visualisation work reflecting changing identity in the age of cloud computing and social networks.

 

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