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Caterina Fake
Artist, Technologist, Writer
Based in New York, Paris & San Francisco
Artist Statement
Caterina Fake’s practice explores systems—social, linguistic, technological, mythic—as structures of meaning and emotion. Drawing from her background as an internet pioneer and cultural theorist, she works across writing, installation, sound, music, performance and digital media to examine how memory, myth, aspiration and power circulate through networks. Her projects often fuse literary and philosophical influences (Blanchot, Carson, Deleuze, Kristeva) with personal mythology and systems aesthetics, creating hybrid works that bridge technology and the human condition.
Education
B.A. in English Literature – Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
Honorary Doctorate – RISD (Rhode Island School of Design), Providence, RI
Honorary Doctorate – The New School, New York, NY
Independent study in painting, life drawing, anatomy, psychology, alchemy, critical theory and mythopoetics at, variously, Art Students League, Parsons School of Design, The New Museum, Giorno Poetry Systems, Jung Archademy.
Selected Exhibitions & Projects
2026 Finity: forthcoming. Book and multimedia installation exploring limitation as freedom. Integrates sound, video, and philosophy.
2026 Yesterday: forthcoming. Performance based on talk given at MoMA in New York City, based on technology, and the loss of the future.
2025 Bed for Dreaming. The Jones Institute, San Francisco, CA
2025 Surreal Systems: Notes on Emergence, Collaborative music-technology project exploring 'composition as system design,' developed with Fake & Fake. San Francisco, CA
2024 Matriarch. Group show, Maspeth, Queens
2023 House Spirits, Bolinas, CA Installation exploring domestic hauntings, ancestral presences, and remoteintelligences.
2022 Chrononaut: Biography of a Future Being, Online / Hybrid Narrative Speculative autobiography using AI-generated text, mythological time structures, and interactive design
2021 Quality Without a Name, New York, NY Series of digital-analog works on pattern, beauty, and the poetics of code, based on theories of Christopher Alexander.
Selected Talks
2025 AI & Creativity, Institute of Contemporary Art, San Francisco
2025 Art and AI, Interact Symposium, San Francisco
2024 Yesterday (all my troubles seemed so far away) MoMA. New York, NY
Awards & Recognition
TIME 100 Most Influential People, TIME Magazine, 2006
Rhizome Lifetime Achievement Award, New Museum, 2009
Fast Company Most Creative People in Business, 2009
Aenne Burda Award for Creative Leadership, 2009
Silicon Valley Visionary Award, 2018
Selected Writing, Presentations & Publications
“Finity” (manuscript in progress)
“System Aesthetics,” New Music Journal (forthcoming, 2025)
“Bed for Dreaming,” The Jones Institute (forthcoming, 2025)
“Myth, Machine, and Memory,” The Atlantic, 2023
“Should this Exist?” host, podcast. 2018-2020
“Killing the Abraham” Wired Magazine, 2011
Collaborations
Fake & Fake: collaborative projects with Ferran Martínez Miquel, composer – surrealist and avant-garde music theatre collaborations
Kevin Newbury: Yesterday, work-in-progress
Flickr, Kickstarter, Etsy– early cultural-technology platforms exploring collective authorship and creative economies
Collections
Private collections in New York, Florence, Barcelona, Vancouver and San Francisco
Digital works in Rhizome ArtBase
Affiliations
Board of Directors & Chairman of the Board, Etsy 2007-2014
Board of Trustees, Sundance Institute 2015-present
Board of Trustees, City Arts & Lectures, 2020-present
Board of Advisors, Helsinki Design & Architecture Museum 2020-present
Board of Trustees, Southern Exposure, 2015-2020
Advisory Board, SFMOMA Media Arts Committee (SMAC) 2008
Mentor, Sundance New Frontier
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