Kate Parsons

Biography

Kate is an artist and educator living in Los Angeles. She obtained her MFA in media arts from UCLA and an MA in digital art and video from CSU-N. She is the co-founder of FLOAT, a VR/AR art studio, and founder of FEMMEBIT, a video art festival celebrating Los Angeles artists working in video and new media. Much of Kate's practice surrounds human connection, meaning-making, and our relationships to the biological and environmental systems we inhabit. Her graduate studies involved research into the myriad ways humans mourn and express grief. She has participated in solo and group residencies at Stanford University, Signal Culture, The Media Archaeology Lab at the University of Colorado, Coaxial Arts Foundation (courtesy of the Pasadena Arts Council) and Dublab. She is Associate Professor of Digital Art at Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA.

Her company FLOAT has shown with Vulcan Inc., Marina Abramovic's Acute Art VR Platform, and at prestigious locations such as SFMOMA, Art Toronto, Sundance Film Festival, SXSW, and TIFF. FLOAT's work has been featured in Art News, the LA Times, CBC, BBC News, Flaunt, Hyperallergic, and more. Collaborators and clients include Netflix, Amazon, Petra Cortright, United Nude, GitHub, and Tony Hawk. FLOAT's latest work, Stranger Things Mixed Reality, is available to play via Stranger Things VR (Tender Claws) on the Meta Quest 2 and 3.

Education

• MFA, UCLA, 2015
• MA, CSU-Northridge, 2013
• BFA, Montana State University, 2005