Research Title: Zeno and the Heap

Karen King is a visual artist, vocalist and researcher who explores our paradoxical relationship to navigable constructs of stored ‘information’. Karen is interested in the processual nature of creative agency and explores action and entropy in subjective acts of collation and construction. Her work fantasises the possibility of exposing a kind of hidden pentimento, present whether material or non-material. Karen’s research is concerned about how these dynamics may be at odds with a technology-enabled, process-oriented culture in which there is a strong desire for the immediacy of navigable content. Is it possible to expose a kind of masked ‘rhetoric of order’, not of the sort that relates to structures in language, but rather that which relates to the nature of our interactions concerning the navigable environs of the tools and technologies we find ourselves inhabiting?

Research Interests: Key interests are in understanding the psychological over-instrumentalisation of precision; Process Philosophies; Heterarchy; Affordance; Creative Agency; Pictorial Essays; Artist’s Books and Warburg’s Bilderatlas Mnemosyne.

Research: Karen is currently a doctoral candidate exploring the role of voids in artworks and their relation to her wider research interests.