Kate Doyle
Kate Doyle is a writer and explorer of experimental approaches to form, process, and poetics in creativity and consciousness. She is Assistant Professor of Music in the Department of Arts, Culture & Media at Rutgers University-Newark. Much of her work centers in understanding art
forms and events as models with which to engage self-reflexively in our embodied cognitions. In her creative-scholarly and teaching practice, she seeks to resonate an attention to the edges of knowledge and the possibilities of paradox available to our everyday experience.
Kate’s practice moves through disciplinary and institutional domains and invests in the collaborative and conversational. With Paul Pangaro, she co-organizes #NewMacy, a cybernetic collective desiring to catalyze conversations and navigate the complex challenges of our time.
With Damian Chapman, Patricia Machado, and TJ McLeish, she runs The Reading Group, a workshop initiative based in prototyping experimental approaches to expression and conversation.
Other projects include a collaborative with Jo Melvin and Chelsea College, the University of the Arts London dedicated to the investigation and production of archiving practices and artist archives.
Kate’s interest in creative archiving is central to her work with the Lucia Dlugoszewski archives, which she helped to develop at the Library of Congress (Washington DC, USA) in 2016. Her work with Dlugoszewski’s writings and scores and her dialogues project with the pianist Agnese
Toniutti attempt to excite an awareness of analysis and archiving as dynamic and performative.
Kate has been an invited speaker or workshop leader at such institutions and organizations as the Australian National University School of Cybernetics, the Library of Congress, the Systemic Design Association, the MaerzMusik Festival of the Berliner Festspiele, and Chelsea College, the
University of the Arts London.
Her recent publications include “Problem as Possibility: A Dialogue About Music and Performance with Lucia Dlugoszewski’s Experimental Notation as Case Study”
(co-authored with Agnese Toniutti, Contemporary Music Review, Vol. 42, no. 1), “On Music, Knowing, and Black Boxes” (Cybernetics & Human Knowing, Vol. 30, nos. 1-2), and “Cybernetics,
Time, and Infinite Poetry” (Technoetic Arts, Vol. 22, no. 1).
