Independent curator
Karen Gaskill is a Curator, Researcher and Artist based in Manchester, UK. Her curatorial practice is interested in the ways that artists create sociality through the use of technologies, and the different ways in which this is manifest. She is interested in interactivity, participation and dialogue, and seeks through her practice to make transparent and open up different aspects of the curatorial process itself. She is the curator of Interval, an artist led organisation which focuses on digital media practice. Established in 2005, it acts as a critical springboard, offering exhibition opportunities to emergent and established practitioners using technology as a key component of their work. She is currently completing her PhD in Digital Media and Social Practice. This practice-based research explores the re-definition of interactivity through contemporary art processes and approaches, questioning the expansion of the term to encompass collaborative work, exchange and social networking. The practical element of her research involves the creation of live pieces highlighting specific possibilities for participation and dialogue. Her art practice has been shown nationally and internationally, and she has recently shown work at the Millennium Galleries, Sheffield as part of Sheffield08, and on the Orkney Isles for PixelPops08. She has an MRes in Fine Art and a BA(Hons) in Fine Art Textiles.
