Kathryn Gledhill-Tucker (they/them)

Kathryn Gledhill-Tucker is a Nyungar anti-disciplinary artist and creative technologist living on Whadjuk Noongar boodjar. Their work explores custodial approaches to data management, interrogating systems of surveillance, and using creative technology to explore coding as a liberatory practice. Kat’s poetry has been published in Cordite, Red Room Poetry, Best Australian Poems and their short speculative fiction can be found in the anthologies This All Come Back Now, The Rocks Remain and New Australian Fiction 2024. They are currently a Wheeler Centre Next Chapter fellow, working on their first science fiction novel.

They also maintain a creative practice as an artist specialising in immersive and experimental technologies, and have worked as an advisor for creative organisations such as ACMI and PICA. In 2023, they were awarded the 2023 Digital Art Program Mentorship with Goolagatup Heathcote, and participated in the Digital Fellowship Program run jointly by Creative Australia and Creative NZ. Most recently, Kat has been working with Naarm-based Wali Studios on their tile tactics game Wyrmspace Tactics, as an Audio Engineer and Narrative Designer.