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Associate Professor Katherine Moline

Associate Professor Katherine Moline

Associate Professor

University of New South Wales, PhD (Art History and Theory), 2012

University of Technology, Master of Design, 1996

Parsons School of Design, Graphics Diploma, 1990

Sydney College of Arts, University of Sydney, Graduate Diploma (Visual Arts), 1988

Sydney College of Arts, University of Sydney, Bachelor of Visual Arts (Painting/Sculpture), 1986

Arts,Design & Architecture
School of Art & Design

Katherine Moline is Associate Professor at UNSW Arts, Design and Architecture. Her research focuses on the dynamics between technological and social forces in art and design. Her analyses of experimental design are published in Undesign: Critical Practices at the Intersection of Art and Design (Routledge, 2018) and Food Democracy: Critical Lessons in Food, Communication, Design and Art (Intellect, 2017). Her innovations in research methods have been documented in Uncertainty and Possibility: New Approaches to Future Making in Design Anthropology (Bloomsbury, 2018) and The Routledge Companion to Digital Ethnography (Routledge, 2017).

Moline is also the Deputy Chair of the Australian Council of University Art & Design Schools (ACUADS), the peak body representing over thirty Australian universities in visual arts, craft and design. The Council undertakes leadership, advocacy, policy development, research and community service for the sector.

Katherine is currently leading the curatorial team for the touring exhibition The Data Imaginary: Fears and Fantasies, for Griffith University Art Museum with Angela Goddard, Amanda Hayman, Troy Casey, and Beck Davis

The Data Imaginary: Fears and Fantasies, Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane (2021).
Funded by the Australia Council for the Arts (2020-2021).
https://www.griffith.edu.au/art-museum/whats-on/2021/data-imaginary-fears-fantasies

Climactic: Post Normal Design, Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh (2016)
http://millergallery.cfa.cmu.edu/exhibitions/climacticpostnormal/

Experimental Thinking: Design Practices, Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fSXUp_c2cc

Experimental Practice: Provocations in and Out of Design, RMIT Design Hub, Melbourne (2015)
http://www.designhub.rmit.edu.au/exhibitions-programs/experimental-practice-provocations-in-and-out-of-design

Feral Experimental, University of New South Wales Galleries, Sydney (2014)
http://www.niea.unsw.edu.au/events/exhibition-feral-experimental

Her current practice-based research includes a critical review of research methodologies in art and design, a series of experimental workshops on social practices with mobile media, CCTV, robots and VR, and a number of ongoing system artworks:

Expanding Experimental Aesthetics in the Social Imaginary, Sydney (2018-2021). Funded Alastair Swayn Foundation (2020-2021)

Myths of the Near Future: Robots, University of Moratuwa, Colombo (2017)

Myths of the Near Future: CCTV, The Selfie and Social Activism, University of New South Wales Sydney (2016)

Myths of the Near Future: Mobile Media, Griffith University Art Museum (2015)
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/futuretense/myths-of-the-near-future/6888830

Era of Surveillance: Persons of Interest, Fisher Library, University of Sydney (2015)
http://news.library.usyd.edu.au/category/exhibitions/
E-mail
k.moline@unsw.edu.au
  • Book Chapters | 2022
    Moline K; Goddard A; Hayman A; Casey T; Davis B, 2022, 'Curating the Data Imaginary: Fears and Fantasies in the Middle of a Dataverse Takeover (Like Science Fiction but Weirder)', in Colless E; Eastwood D; Lehmann C; Thomas P (ed.), Dark Eden. Transdisciplinary Imaging at the Intersections of Art, Science and Culture, Art + Australia, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, pp. 180 - 187
    Book Chapters | 2020
    Akama Y; Pink S; Lanzeni D; Ardivol E; Moline K; Light A; Sumartojo S, 2020, 'Akama Y; Ardevol E; Lanzeni D; Light A; Moline K; Pink S; Sumartojo S, 2018, 'Strategies for Disruption'', in Akama Y; Pink S; Sumartojo S (ed.), Uncertainty & Possibility: New Approaches to Future Making in Design Anthropology, Routledge, pp. 59 - 80
    Book Chapters | 2018
    Akama Y; Ardevol E; Lanzeni D; Light A; Moline K; Pink S; Sumartojo S, 2018, 'Strategies for Disruption', in Akama Y; Pink S; Sumartojo S (ed.), Uncertainty & Possibility: New Approaches to Future Making in Design Anthropology, Bloomsbury Academic, London, pp. 59 - 80, https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/uncertainty-and-possibility-9781350002708/
    Book Chapters | 2018
    Moline K, 2018, 'Critical Operationality: Energy and Co-Designing Communities (ECDC) by the Interaction Research Studio (IRS), Goldsmiths, London (2010–14)', in Coombs G; Sade G; McNamara A (ed.), Undesign : Critical Practices at the Intersection of Art and Design, Routledge, https://www.routledge.com/Undesign-Critical-Practices-at-the-Intersection-of-Art-and-Design/Coombs-McNamara-Sade/p/book/9781138695719
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Akama Y; Ardevol E; Lanzeni D; Light A; Moline K; Pink S; Sumartojo S, 2017, 'Strategies for Disruption', in Akama Y; Pink S; Sumartojo S (ed.), Uncertainty & Possibility, Bloomsbury, London
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Akama Y; Moline K; Pink S, 2017, 'Disruptive interventions with mobile media through Design+Ethnography+Futures', in Hjorth L; Horst H; Bell G; Galloway A (ed.), Routledge Companion to Digital Ethnography, Routledge, London, pp. 458 - 469, https://www.routledgehandbooks.com/doi/10.4324/9781315673974
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Moline K, 2017, 'Before, during and after a PhD: Curating as a generative and collaborative process of infrastructuring', in Vaughan L (ed.), Practice Based Design Research, Bloomsbury, London, pp. 141 - 154, https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.wwwproxy1.library.unsw.edu.au/lib/unsw/detail.action?docID=4773817#
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Moline K, 2017, 'Marti Guixé’s Food Designing: a critique of consumerism?', in Vodeb O (ed.), Food Democracy: Critical Lessons in Food, Communication, Design and Art, Intellect Books, Bristol, pp. 196 - 221, https://login.wwwproxy1.library.unsw.edu.au/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=1572056&site=ehost-live&scope=site
    Book Chapters | 2012
    Moline K, 2012, 'Legacy of Historical Design Collectives in Contemporary Experimental Design: a Case Study of Global Tools and Digestion', in Edquist H; Vaughan L (ed.), The Design Collective: An Approach to Practice, edn. 1st, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, pp. 121 - 140
    Book Chapters | 2007
    Moline K, 2007, 'Design art and new craft: whose zooming who?', in visual:design:scholarship, edn. Original, Australian Graphic Design Association, Sydney, pp. 4 - 9
  • Journal articles | 2015
    Moline K, 2015, 'Impurity and the Logic of Specialisation', Sturgeon, pp. 92 - 97, http://sturgeonmagazine.com.au/
    Journal articles | 2014
    Moline K; Clayton J, 2014, 'Reworking the archive: Experimental arts, memory and imagination', craft + design enquiry, n/a, http://press.anu.edu.au/apps/bookworm/view/craft+++design+enquiry+Issue+6,+2014+Craft+%E2%80%A2+Material+%E2%80%A2+Memory/11091/cover.xhtml
    Journal articles | 2014
    Moline K, 2014, 'The Future is Now', Powerline: Magazine of Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Spring 2014, pp. 3 - 5, http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/
    Journal articles | 2008
    Moline K, 2008, 'Counter-forces in experimental design: H_edge and the Technological Dream Series #1 (Robots)', Studies in Material Thinking, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 11
    Journal articles | 2008
    Moline K, 2008, 'Historians and Iconoclasts', Incubate, pp. 31 - 33
    Journal articles | 2006
    Moline K, 2006, 'Authorship, Entrepreneurialism and Experimental Design', visual:design:scholarship, 2 No. 2, pp. 57 - 66
    Journal articles | 2005
    Moline K, 2005, 'Time warps in three exhibitions of graphic design', Open Manifesto, 2, pp. 76 - 85
    Journal articles | 2004
    Moline K, 2004, 'Views from the client side - Stephen Schulz, Katherine Moline, Joanna Mendelssohn.', ARLIS/ANZ Journal, No. 58, 58, pp. 35 - 41
    Journal articles | 2004
    Moline K, 2004, 'What design practice researchers want', ARLIS/ANZ Journal, No. 58, pp. 36 - 38
  • Creative Written Works | 2022
    Moline K, 2022, Changing the Rules of the Game: Making Menopause Cool Through Data, Codesign, Cultural Probes, and Ethnographic Surrealism Research Workshops, SAGE Research Methods: Doing Research Online, SAGE Research Methods, https://methods.sagepub.com/case/menopause-data-codesign-cultural-probes-ethnographic-surrealism-workshops?fromsearch=true
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2021
    Brazauskayte Y; Moline K, 2021, RAD (Research in Art & Design) Talks: Engagement, RAD (Research in Art & Design) Talks: Engagement, Creative Robotics Lab, University of NSW, Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, 15 June 2021 - 15 June 2021
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2021
    McArthur I; Hinshaw A, 2021, metaPLACE, The Data Imaginary: Fears and Fantasies, Griffiths University Art Museum, 01 July 2021 - 18 September 2021, medium: Online interactive and live data feed, at: http://thedataimaginary.com/
    Creative Written Works | 2021
    Moline K; Goddard A; Davis B, 2021, How we imagine data and data reimagines us, The Data Imaginary: Fears and Fantasies, Moline K, (ed.), Griffith University Art Museum
    Curatorial Outputs | 2021
    Moline K; Goddard A; Hayman A; Casey T; Davis B, 2021, The Data Imaginary: Fears and Fantasies, exhibited at: Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane, 02 May 2021 - 02 July 2021, https://www.griffith.edu.au/art-museum/whats-on/2021/data-imaginary-fears-fantasies
    Conference Papers | 2021
    Samsarasekara I; Moline K; Veness Z, 2021, 'Reimagining the Cosmopolitanism of Sri Lanka through Cultural Artefacts', in New Networks, Online, presented at 2021 ACUADS/DDCA Conference, Online, 28 October 2021 - 29 October 2021, https://acuads.com.au/conference/article/reimagining-the-cosmopolitanism-of-sri-lanka-through-cultural-artefacts/
    Other | 2020
    Goddard A; Moline K; Hayman A; Casey T; Davis B, 2020, Australia Council Grant, $21,844.00,
    Conference Presentations | 2020
    Moline K; Goddard A; Davis B, 2020, 'Curating The Data Imaginary: Fears and Fantasies in the middle of a dataverse takeover (like science fiction but weirder)', presented at Dark Eden: The Sixth International Conference on Transdisciplinary Imaging at the Intersections between Art, Science and Culture, UNSW Art & Desig, 06 November 2020 - 08 November 2020, https://blogs.unsw.edu.au/tiic/dark-eden-program/
    Conference Posters | 2020
    Moline K; Goddard A; Davis B, 2020, 'Curating The Data Imaginary: Fears and Fantasies in the middle of a dataverse takeover (like science fiction but weirder)', Artspace, Art & Design Paddington Campus, Online, presented at Dark Eden: The Sixth International Conference on Transdisciplinary Imaging at the Intersections between Art, Science, and Culture, Artspace, Art & Design Paddington Campus, Online, 06 November 2020 - 08 November 2020
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2020
    Moline K; Goddard A; Hayman A; Casey T; Davis B, 2020, The Data Imaginary: Fears and Fantasies, Dark Eden, UNSW, 07 November 2020 - 07 November 2020
    Other | 2020
    Moline K; Gwilt A, 2020, Grant: Katherine Moline and Alison Gwilt, Alastair Swayn Foundation, 2020-2021,
    Conference Papers | 2020
    Moline K, 2020, 'Changing the Rules of the Game: Data and Ethnographic Surrealism', in Gothe J; Cooper S; Lavery A; Sierra M (eds.), ACUADS 2020 Conference Crisis & Resilience: art and design looks ahead, Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools, The National Art School; Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney; Art & Design, UNSW Sydney; and UTS School of Design., pp. 1 - 13, presented at ACUADS 2020 Conference Crisis & Resilience: art and design looks ahead, The National Art School; Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney; Art & Design, UNSW Sydney; and UTS School of Design., 05 November 2020 - 26 November 2020, https://acuads.com.au/conference/article/changing-the-rules-of-the-game-data-and-ethnographic-surrealism/
    Conference Presentations | 2020
    Moline K, 2020, 'Changing the Rules of the Game: Data and Ethnographic Surrealism', presented at Crisis and Resilience: Art and Design Looks Ahead. Australia Council of University Art and Design Schools (ACUADS), Co-hosted online by the National Art School, Art & Design, UNSW Sydney, Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney and UTS School of Design, 05 November 2020 - 26 November 2020, https://acuads.com.au/conference/conference2020-conference/
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2020
    Moline K, 2020, Expanding Experimental Aesthetics in the Social Imaginary: The Change at Work, 2020 ACUADS Conference: Crisis and Resilience, ACUADS Conference Proceedings 2020, 05 November 2020 - 05 November 2020, at: https://acuads.com.au/conference/article/changing-the-rules-of-the-game-data-and-ethnographic-surrealism/
    Conference Papers | 2019
    Bailey BJ; Lilja A; Strong C; Moline K; Kavallaris M; Hughes RT; McGhee J, 2019, 'Multi-user immersive virtual reality prototype for collaborative visualization of microscopy image data', in Proceedings - VRCAI 2019: 17th ACM SIGGRAPH International Conference on Virtual-Reality Continuum and its Applications in Industry, ACM Press, presented at The 17th International Conference on Virtual-Reality Continuum and its Applications in Industry, 14 November 2019 - 16 November 2019, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3359997.3365730
    Conference Papers | 2019
    Moline K; Parker A; Tieu B; Vickers C; Watts H, 2019, 'Narratives in the Exhibition of Design: Materials, Processes and Contemporary Challenges', in Narratives in the Exhibition of Design: Materials, Processes and Contemporary Challenges, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, presented at Real/Material/Ethereal: The 2nd Annual Design Research Conference, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, 03 October 2019 - 04 October 2019, https://www.monash.edu/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/1986702/adr19-schedule.pdf
    Conference Presentations | 2019
    Moline K, 2019, 'Introduction by the Chair: Decolonising Design History', presented at AAANZ 2019 Conference: Ngā _Tūtaki – Encounter/s: Agency, Embodiment, Exchange, Ecologies, University of Auckland, 03 December 2019 - 06 December 2019, http://aaanz.info/aaanz-home/conferences/2019-conference/
    Creative Written Works | 2018
    Moline K, 2018, Three years of living with an Energy Babble, Energy Babble, Boucher A; Gaver W; Kerridge T; Michael M; Ovalle L; Wilkie A; Plummer-Fernandez M, (eds.), Mattering Press, https://www.matteringpress.org/books/energy-babble
    Conference Papers | 2018
    Moline K, 2018, 'Creating New Pathways to Equity in Higher Degree Research', Perth, Western Australia on the 27th and 28th of September 2018. The conference was co-hosted by Curtin University, Edith Cowan University and North Metropolitan TAFE in conjunction with UAMA (University Art Museums Australia), presented at 2018 ACUADS Conference: Art and Design in Transition, Perth, Western Australia on the 27th and 28th of September 2018. The conference was co-hosted by Curtin University, Edith Cowan University and North Metropolitan TAFE in conjunction with UAMA (University Art Museums Australia), 27 September 2018 - 28 September 2018, https://acuads.com.au/conference/conference-2018/
    Conference Abstracts | 2018
    Moline K, 2018, 'Myths of the Near Future: Socially Engaged Data', in Selfie Subjectivities Research Symposium, Co-sponsored by Creative Agency; Swinburne University of Technology Social Media Research Group; Design & Creative Practice ECP Platform (RMIT); and Digital Ethnography Research Centre (RMIT), RMIT, Melbourne, pp. 10 - 10, presented at Selfie Subjectivities Research Symposium, RMIT, Melbourne, 05 April 2018 - 06 April 2018
    Recorded / Rendered Creative Works | 2017
    Adhitya S; Davis B; Frankjaer R; Flanagan P; Mahony Z, 2017, BIOdress (video projection), Climatic: Post-Normal Design, Hunt Gallery, Webster University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, Editor(s): Davis R, digital projection, Published: 24 March 2017, Recorded / Rendered Creative Works, http://millergallery.cfa.cmu.edu/exhibitions/climacticpostnormal/
    Creative Written Works | 2017
    Moline K, 2017, Imagining the city: home, ruin, landscape, and playground, #KissingSydney, Historic Houses Association, National Trust Centre
    Conference Papers | 2017
    Moline K, 2017, 'The Social Imaginaries of Data in Science + Art + Fashion', in 10th International Research Conference on Architecture: Design That Cares, 10th International Research Conference on Architecture: Design That Cares, Colombo, Sri Lanka, presented at 10th International Research Conference on Architecture: Design That Cares, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 08 December 2017 - 10 December 2017
    Other | 2016
    Blythe R; Moline K; Vaughan L; Haylock B; Stamm M; van Schaik L; Attiwill S; Ednie Brown P; Mitsogianni V; O’Callaghan J; Demirbilek O; Luscombe D; McNeil P; Wallan L; Bertram N; Bird M; Murray S; Ramirez-Lovering D; Hurst R; Kelly V; Bette U; Russell-Clarke J; George B; Knapp C; Carter A; Savrimaki M; Woodward M; Anderson L; Komac U; Muminovic M; Ware S; Loo S; Wise K; Maloney J; Gibson I; Fulleondo D; Wier I; Hamilton J; Lawson G; Osborne L, 2016, Office of Learning and Teaching Grant, $1,779, 147, DAP_r (Design and Architecture Practice research),
    Recorded / Rendered Creative Works | 2016
    Frankjaer R; Davis B; Mahony Z; Adhitya S, 2016, BIOdress (video), Climatic Post Normal Design, Miller Gallery Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, Philadelphia USA, Editor(s): Moline K; Ansari A; Butoliya D, Video, Published: 04 November 2016, Recorded / Rendered Creative Works, http://millergallery.cfa.cmu.edu/exhibitions/climacticpostnormal/
    Creative Written Works | 2016
    Moline K; Ansari A; Butoliya D, 2016, Climactic: Post Normal Design, Climactic: Post Normal Design, Moline K; Ansari A; Butoliya D, (eds.), Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University
    Curatorial Outputs | 2016
    Moline K; Butoliya D; Ansari A, 2016, Climactic: Post Normal Design, exhibited at: Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA, 04 November 2016 - 11 December 2016, Climactic: Post Normal Design, http://millergallery.cfa.cmu.edu/exhibitions/climacticpostnormal/
    Conference Presentations | 2016
    Moline K, 2016, 'Art and the social pacts of design in Energy and Co-­Designing Communities (ECDC) by Interaction Research Studio, Goldsmiths, London (2010– 2014)', presented at AAANZ, 01 December 2016 - 03 December 2016, http://aaanz.info/aaanz-home/conferences/2016-conference/work-art-2016-conference-program/
    Conference Presentations | 2016
    Moline K, 2016, 'On Researching Mobile Media', presented at Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, University of Sydney, 14 December 2016 - 17 December 2016, http://crossroads2016.org/
    Recorded / Rendered Creative Works | 2015
    Davis B; Mahony Z; Adhitya S; Frankjaer R; Flanagan T, 2015, The BioDress; Video, Experimental Thinking/Design Practices, Griffith Art Gallery Brisbane, Editor(s): Moline K; Davis B, Published: 19 September 2015, Recorded / Rendered Creative Works, https://www.griffith.edu.au/visual-creative-arts/griffith-artworks/exhibition-program/2015-exhibitions/experimental-thinking
    Recorded / Rendered Creative Works | 2015
    Flanagan P, 2015, BODYecology 2015 (digital video), Experimental thinking/Design practices,, Griffith University Art Gallery, Brisbane, Editor(s): Moline K, multimedia performance installation, Published: 18 September 2015, Recorded / Rendered Creative Works, https://app.secure.griffith.edu.au/news/2015/09/17/experimental-thinking-design-practices-exhibition-opening-at-griffith-university-art-gallery/
    Theses / Dissertations | 2015
    Keulemans G, 2015, Affect and the experimental design of domestic products, University of New South Wales, Art & Design, https://www.academia.edu/35605876/affect_and_the_experimental_design_of_domestic_products
    Recorded / Rendered Creative Works | 2015
    Moline K; Funnell A, 2015, Myths of the Near Future: Future Tense, ABC Radio National, Brisbane, Editor(s): Funnell A, radio interview, Published: 01 November 2015, Duration: 00:06:42, Recorded / Rendered Creative Works, http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/futuretense/myths-of-the-near-future/6888830
    Curatorial Outputs | 2015
    Moline K; Hall P; Davis B; Vaughan L; Haylock B, 2015, Experimental Thinking / Design Practices, exhibited at: Griffith University Art Gallery, Brisbane, 18 September 2015 - 07 November 2015, Experimental Thinking / Design Practices, https://www.griffith.edu.au/visual-creative-arts/griffith-artworks/exhibition-program/2015-exhibitions/experimental-thinking
    Curatorial Outputs | 2015
    Moline K; Haylock B; Vaughan L, 2015, Experimental Practice: Provocations In and Out of Design, exhibited at: RMIT Design Hub, 11 May 2015 - 30 May 2015, Experimental Practice: Provocations In and Out of Design, http://www.designhub.rmit.edu.au/exhibitions-programs/experimental-practice-provocations-in-and-out-of-design
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2015
    Moline K; Wallace G, 2015, Artists as agents in the era of surveillance: From the production of knowledge to the culture of control, Era of Surveillance/Persons of Interest, Fisher Library, University of Sydney, 02 November 2015 - 02 December 2015, at: https://www.facebook.com/fisherarium/?pnref=story
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2015
    Moline K; Wallace G, 2015, Redacted A frames, Persons of Interest Book 1 ASIO, Persons of Interest Book 2 Family and Persons of Interest Book 3 Cold War, Phone Tapping 1, Era of Surveillance/Persons of Interest, Ex Libris Fisherarium, Fisher Library, University of Sydney, 02 November 2015 - 02 December 2015, medium: installation and artists books, at: https://www.facebook.com/fisherarium
    Creative Written Works | 2015
    Moline K, 2015, Bringing Experimental Design Thinking and Practice Together, Experimental Thinking / Experimental Practices, Moline K; Hall P, (ed.), Griffith University Art Gallery, https://www.griffith.edu.au/visual-creative-arts/griffith-artworks/publications/on-line-publications
    Creative Written Works | 2015
    Moline K, 2015, Experimental Practice: Provocations, Experimental Practice: Provocations In and Out of Design, Moline K; Haylock B; Vaughan L, (eds.), RMIT Design Hub, http://www.designhub.rmit.edu.au/docs/ep-catalogue-outer.pdf
    Conference Presentations | 2015
    Moline K, 2015, 'On researching mobile media', presented at Researching Digital Cultures: Methods & Ethics Symposium, UNSW School of Arts and Media, 05 November 2015 - 05 November 2015
    Recorded / Rendered Creative Works | 2015
    Moline K, 2015, Myths of the Near Future 2: Equipment, Experimental Thinking/Design Practices, Griffith University Art Gallery, Brisbane, Editor(s): Moline K; Hall P; Davis B, participatory art, sculpture, performance, Published: 18 September 2015, Recorded / Rendered Creative Works, https://www.griffith.edu.au/visual-creative-arts/griffith-artworks/exhibition-program/2015-exhibitions/experimental-thinking
    Recorded / Rendered Creative Works | 2014
    Bacon JL, 2014, Double Fountain, Feral Experimental: New Design Thinking, UNSW Galleries, Editor(s): Moline K, Published: 2014, Recorded / Rendered Creative Works, https://www.artdesign.unsw.edu.au/sites/default/files/atoms/files/feral_experimental_catalogue.pdf
    Recorded / Rendered Creative Works | 2014
    Kuchelmeister V; Fisher L; Bennett J, 2014, Veloscape, Feral Experimental, Galleries UNSW, Sydney, Editor(s): Moline K, Published: 18 July 2014, Recorded / Rendered Creative Works, http://www.niea.unsw.edu.au/events/exhibition-feral-experimental
    Creative Written Works | 2014
    Moline K, 2014, Dingo Logic: Feral Experimental and New Design Thinking, Feral Experimental: New Design Thinking, UNSW Galleries, UNSW Australia Art & Design
    Conference Papers | 2014
    Moline K, 2014, 'Authorship and Anonymity in Experimental Design: Museum of the Ordinary and Museum Guixé', in Barbosa H; Calvera A (ed.), 9th Conference of the International Committee Design History and Design Studies. Tradition, Transition, Trajectories: Major or Minor Influences? Proceedings, UA Editora, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal, pp. 453 - 458, presented at 9th Conference of the International Committee Design History and Design Studies. Tradition, Transition, Trajectories: Major or Minor Influences?, Aveiro, Portugal, 09 July 2014 - 11 July 2014, http://dx.doi.org/10.5151/despro-icdhs2014-0064
    Conference Presentations | 2014
    Moline K, 2014, 'Experimental Design Research: Participatory and Speculative Design', presented at Feral Experimental: New Design Thinking, UNSW Galleries, 20 August 2014 - 22 August 2014, http://niea.unsw.edu.au/events/symposium-workshops-feral-experimental
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2014
    Moline K, 2014, Asylum, Hot Hot Hot: Christopher Firmstone, Katherine Moline, Janet Burchill, Nigel Milsom, Robert MacPherson, Yuill Crowley Gallery, 18 April 2014 - 17 May 2014, medium: painting/sculpture
    Curatorial Outputs | 2014
    Moline K, 2014, Feral Experimental, exhibited at: UNSW Galleries, 18 July 2014 - 30 August 2014, Feral Experimental, http://www.niea.unsw.edu.au/events/exhibition-feral-experimental
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2014
    Moline K, 2014, Myths of the Near Future: Social Experiences Mediated by Phone, Digital Ethnography Research Centre, RMIT City Campus, Design Hub, 11 June 2014 - 11 June 2014, medium: Workshop, at: http://www.digital-ethnography.net/
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2013
    Moline K, 2013, xxx, House Special: Katherine Moline, Christopher Firmstone, Sophie Coombs, Robert MacPherson, John Barbour, Nigel Milsom, Yuill Crowley Gallery, 13 November 2013 - 13 December 2013, medium: painting/sculpture
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2012
    Keulemans G, 2012, Ladenkastboekenplank, Black, Cross-Pollination, COFAspace, UNSW, 05 June 2012 - 08 June 2012, medium: bamboo ply, steel ball asters, nylon and polypropylene rails, copper handles, at: http://www.redobjects.unsw.edu.au/system/assets/275/original/Cross-Pollination_Catalogue_web.pdf
    Curatorial Outputs | 2012
    Moline K, 2012, Cross-Pollination, exhibited at: COFA Exhibition Space; COFA UNSW Paddington, 05 June 2012 - 08 June 2012, Cross-Pollination, http://redobjects.unsw.edu.au/system/assets/275/original/Cross-Pollination_Catalogue_web.pdf
    Conference Papers | 2011
    Moline K, 2011, 'Remodelling design as co-creation in the era of globalisation', in Collaboration in Experimental Design Research Symposium, UNSW, Paddington, pp. 1 - 8, presented at Red Objects, COFA, UNSW, 05 August 2011 - 06 August 2011, http://redobjects.unsw.edu.au/system/assets/278/original/RedObjects_Symposium_Proceedings.pdf
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2011
    Moline K, 2011, Equipment for the Actual Complexities and Intricacies of String: Super-Tube, Super-Suction, Super-String (2010-2011), RED Objects - Research in Experimental Design: Objects, COFASpace; College of Fine Arts, Paddington, 02 August 2011 - 06 August 2011, at: http://www.redobjects.unsw.edu.au/projects/equipment-for-the-actual-complexities-and-intricacies-of-string/
    Theses / Dissertations | 2011
    Moline K, 2011, The relationship between experimental design and the artistic avant-gardes (1998 - 2007), University of New South Wales, College of Fine Arts Library, http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/51663
    Conference Presentations | 2010
    Moline K, 2010, 'Handy Excuses for Avoiding Scholarship in Practice Based Research', presented at Practice as Research Symposium, RMIT, 28 October 2010
    Conference Presentations | 2010
    Moline K, 2010, 'How Experimental Designers Question Mechanical Functionalism as the Defining Paradigm of Design', presented at New Territories: On Designing, College of Fine Arts, UNSW, 05 August 2010
    Conference Presentations | 2010
    Moline K, 2010, 'If I put this on my wall at home, why wouldn't it be art?: the rules of making and the rules of judging design', presented at Poetic Machines, University of Technology Sydney, 04 August 2010
    Conference Papers | 2010
    Moline K, 2010, 'Oscillating Between Two Judgements', in Writing Around the Kitchen Table: Critical Spatial Writing Practices, RMIT, Melbourne, 07 June 2010
    Conference Papers | 2010
    Moline K, 2010, 'Re-conceptualizing Innovation in Design Research', in ConnectED 2010: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Design Education, ConnectED 2010: the 2nd International Conference on Design Education, University of New South Wales, Sydney, presented at ConnectED 2010: the 2nd International Conference on Design Education, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 28 June 2010 - 01 July 2010
    Conference Presentations | 2010
    Moline K, 2010, 'When Does Practice Fulfill the Scholarly Definition of Research?', presented at New Territories: Design Research Context, College of Fine Art, UNSW, 19 August 2010
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2010
    Moline K, 2010, Art made the world, There is nothing new under the sun, ESD, 22 June 2010 - 29 July 2010, medium: sculpture
    Creative Written Works | 2009
    Moline K, 2009, Tensions Between Sustainability and Design: Third Time Lucky?, Sustain Me: Contemporary Design, Bamford R; Williamson L, (ed.), Ivan Dougherty Gallery
    Conference Papers | 2008
    Moline K; Clerke T, 2008, 'A Reconceptualisation of Health Policy from the Perspective of Strategic Design', in A Reconceptualisation of Health Policy from the Perspective of Strategic Design, 1st Community, Health and the Arts: Vital Arts—Vibrant Communities Conference, University of Melbourne, presented at 1st Community, Health and the Arts: Vital Arts—Vibrant Communities Conference, University of Melbourne, 06 September 2008 - 06 September 2008
    Conference Papers | 2008
    Moline K, 2008, '`The Critical Capacities of Experimental Design`: Session: `Architectural Criticism, Between Art and Design Criticism`', in Hawker R; Woodrow R (ed.), Alpha Alpha Alpha November Zulu, Art Association of Australia and New Zealand Annual Conference 2008, South Bank, Brisbane, pp. 6 - 6, presented at Art Association of Australia and New Zealand Annual Conference 2008, South Bank, Brisbane, 04 December 2008 - 06 December 2008
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2008
    Moline K, 2008, Cascade Room (Pattern of Sensation), Production Exemplar, Fashion v. Style (Losing the ability to say no), Crystalline, Identity and difference in varying proportions according to a commercial logic, How Art Made the World, Untitled, Yuill Crowley Gallery, 10 July 2008 - 02 August 2008, medium: Mixed Media
    Conference Presentations | 2007
    Moline K; Clark K, 2007, 'Exhibitions as Interfaces Between Practice and Research', presented at ACUADS, College of Fine Arts, UNSW, 28 September 2007 - 28 September 2007
    Creative Written Works | 2007
    Moline K, 2007, Connections: Experimental Design, Connections: Experimental Design, Moline K, (ed.), Ivan Dougherty Gallery
    Creative Written Works | 2007
    Moline K, 2007, Integration: The Nature of Objects, Integration: The Nature of Objects, Williamson L, (ed.), Ivan Dougherty Gallery
    Conference Presentations | 2007
    Moline K, 2007, 'The Inseparability of Wit and Reason in Contemporary Experimental Design', presented at ConnectED 2007, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 12 July 2007 - 12 July 2007
    Curatorial Outputs | 2007
    Moline K, 2007, Connections: Experimental Design, exhibited at: Ivan Dougherty Gallery, 05 July 2007 - 21 July 2007, Connections: Experimental Design
    Visual Arts | 2007
    Moline K, 2007, Exhibited: Connections: Experimental Design at , Publication: Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, Curator/Editor: Moline K, publication category: Visual Arts
    Conference Papers | 2006
    Moline K, 2006, 'Institutional criticism in contemporary experimental design: the work of Ana Mir and Marti Guixe', in Art Association of Australia and New Zealand Annual Conference, Reinventing the Medium: Australian and New Zealand Art Association Annual Conference, Melbourne, presented at Reinventing the Medium: Australian and New Zealand Art Association Annual Conference, Melbourne, 07 December 2006 - 09 December 2006
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2006
    Moline K, 2006, RE-FRAME, RE-FRAME
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2005
    Moline K, 2005, Sugarwalls, Sugarwalls, Yuill Crowley Gallery; Surry Hills
    Conference Presentations | 2004
    Moline K, 2004, 'Experimental Design', presented at sds2k4: Sydney Design Symposium, University of Technlogy Sydney and College of Fine Arts University of New South Wales, 12 November 2004 - 13 November 2004
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2004
    Moline K, 2004, Open Season, Open Season, Yuill Crowley Gallery; Surry Hills, 09 December 2004 - 18 December 2004
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2004
    Moline K, 2004, This Way, This Way
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2003
    Moline K, 2003, Complex Pleasures for Ana Mendieta, Outside In, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, - , medium: sculpture
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2003
    Moline K, 2003, Here, Here, Yuill Crowley Gallery; Surry Hills
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2003
    Moline K, 2003, Outside In, Outside In
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2001
    Moline K, 2001, Deterritorialization, Deterritorialization, Yuill Crowley Gallery, 11 October 2001 - 08 November 2001

2021 Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture Research Fellow Scheme.

2020 Alastair Swayn Foundation, Strategic Grant. Collaboration with Alison Gwilt.

2020 Australia Council for the Arts, Arts Projects for Individuals and Groups. Collaboration with The Data Imaginary Curatorium; Angela Goddard, Amanda Hayman, Troy Casey and Beck Davis.

2016 Ian Potter Foundation, Conference Funding. Collaboration with Kath Albury.

My Research Supervision

Katherine was awarded the Dean’s Award for Outstanding Research Supervision, College of Fine Arts, UNSW in 2009. Current and recently completed students and topics supervised include:

Danielah Martinez, (PhD, practice-based, joint) How can the practice of care through critical design reveal issues of importance in design for an ageing population? (commenced supervision 2021)

Jack Grant (PhD, practice-based, joint) Design Activism: participant narratives on informal waste collection and recycling in Sydney, Australia  (commenced 2021)

Benjamin Bailey (Scientia PhD, practice-based, joint) Democratising Data: 3D Virtual Reality (VR) and the Biomedical Aesthetic (commenced 2019)

Inoka Samarasekara (PhD, practice-based, joint) Acts of Preservation and Renewal: Remaking traditional Sri Lankan jewellery impacted by colonisation and globalisation (commenced 2019)

Matt Harkness (PhD, practice-based, joint) Critical Making and DIY Practice: An Investigation of Digital Fabrication Tools and Technologies and their Use in High-Density Urban Settings (commenced 2018)

Yulia Brazauskayte (PhD, practice-based, joint) Social Robotics: Human-Robot Interaction Design (commenced 2018)

Carly Vickers (PhD, practice-based) Conducting Gesture as Visual Music: Experimental Visualisations for Audiences of Western Classical Music (commenced 2012 PT)

Recent completions

Kyo Hashimoto (MFA, practice-based, joint) Bioregional Bodies: Place-based making and experimental design practices in contemporary jewellery  (completed 2021)

Jack Grant (M.Phil, practice-based, joint) All It Takes: Countering Negative Stereotypes about Homelessness (completed 2020)

Chantelle Baistow (M.Design, practice-based) Co-design and Hyper-consumerism: Technology, Participation, and Ceramics (completed 2019)

Hannah Greethead (M.Phil, practice-based) Webcomics: Communicating Future-Oriented Design Concepts (completed 2019)

Penny Craswell (M.Design) Beyond Celebrity: Emergent Narratives in Inside and Frame Magazine (completed 2017, Deans Award for Research Excellence)

Guy Keulemans (PhD, practice-led, joint) Affect and the experimental design of domestic products (completed 2015)

My Teaching

Design Research Methods and Theory DDES4200

Design Honours Studio Research Project 1 DDES4101

Design Honours Studio Research Project 2 DDES4102

Research Foundations in Art & Design ADAD9114