Katya Rozanova is a Russian-American interdisciplinary artist, designer, learner, and educator. She creates tactile sound object installations that invite collaboration and prod our social imagination. She also creates animation-video collages and sculptural assemblages from found materials, blending humor with a critical eye on the structures we inherited and are complicit in upholding. When she’s done venting at society through visual art she attempts activism and cross-disciplinary art projects that explore how visual, tactile, and sonic art can be combined and used in groups for contemplative practice and play. She is interested in how ‘jamming’ together can create spaces for better understandings of ourselves and each other and allow for reflections on our implicit social agreements. Her work has been shown in formal and informal contexts, including friends’ back yard group shows and at venues like Essex Flowers, Baby Castles, The Museum of the Moving Image, the Issue Project Room, Pineapple Reality, and the Un/Sounding the Relational City - an NYU Music Department Conference and The NYC Electroacoustic Improvisation Summit. In addition, she has been featured at the Platform Space at the University of California, Berkeley, the International Conference on Movement and Computing in Chicago, the SloMoCo residency and Accessible Objects online. In 2023, she received a grant from the Goethe Institut for a tactile sound sculpture project at Sound Scene at Hirshhorn Museum of Art in Washington, D.C. Currently based in Berlin, Rozanova teaches new media art and design at CUNY in New York and sometimes other Universities, engaging her students in cooperative work structures and mutual aid in the arts.

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