Katie Hofstadter

Biography

"Katie Hofstadter (b. 1981; Macon, Georgia) is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and curator whose work investigates the complex relationships between embodiment, consciousness, and technologically mediated imagination. Her projects have been exhibited worldwide, and her writing appears in publications like Flash Art, Bomb, and The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. She is cofounder of global public art campaigns such as the ARORA network and the Climate Clock in New York. She studied English and Studio Art at the University of Georgia and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from The New School. She is based in Southern California and New York, and teaches at Parsons School of Design and the Fashion Institute of Technology. For more than a decade she has curated physical and virtual projects for Undercurrent Projects, Artsy and 1stdibs. Since 2024 she has worked with artist Memo Akten on projects about how AI and data systems affect embodied, emotional and ecological experience. Their works combine choreography, dance, poetry, custom software, motion tracking and machine learning. Superradiance is a two-chapter multiscreen video and sound installation in which her dancing body, never shown on screen, becomes nebulae, plankton, trees and mushrooms. It was shown at Gray Area in San Francisco in February 2026. Boundaries, a single-channel video, was presented at the 2024 Venice Biennale in the Chiesa di Santa Maria della Visitazione. Their work has also been shown at Jacob's Pillow, CTRL Gallery in Los Angeles and Outernet London, and they were GAZELL.iO artists in residence in September 2025. Other projects include Bodies on the Blockchain (2022), Lifelike Expanded (2023) and Metaglyphs (2021). Her residencies include Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild (2019), Stochastic Labs (2024) and the GLITCH Residency in France (2024)."