Ania Catherine is an artist from Los Angeles, currently based in Madrid. Stemming from a background in contemporary dance, she creates works that flow between choreography, performance, poetry, film, installation, photography, and combinations thereof. Her work has been shown at the British Film Institute, Francisco Carolinum Museum (Linz), Art Basel Hong Kong, SCAD Museum of Art, Dansmuseet (Stockholm), MEET Digital Culture Center (Milan) London Fashion Week, Ars Electronica, (Linz), Trauma Bar und Kino (Berlin), Forum des images (Paris), CICA Museum (Korea), the International Meeting on Screendance (Valencia, Spain) among others. Her practice has roots in slow cinema, surrealism, the aesthetics of boredom, and her studies (academic and physical) of the body as a tool of both learning and unlearning. She holds a master’s degree in Gender and Politics from the London School of Economics and works internationally performing, choreographing, speaking, directing, and teaching. In 2016 Catherine co-founded the duo practice Operator with Dejha Ti.

Originally from Los Angeles and currently based in Madrid, Spain.

Operator

Ania Catherine and Dejha Ti are an artist duo whose collaborative practice, Operator, develops critical and conceptual approaches to experience. With Ti’s background as a multimedia artist and HCI technologist, and Catherine’s as a choreographer and performance artist, they engineer medium-agnostic output, joining environments, technology, and the body. Their exploration into privacy and extractive technologies began with their performance installation, On View (2019), commissioned by the SCAD Museum of Art, and continues with the Privacy Collection, a durational release of works exploring the tension between privacy and transparency in blockchain technology.

Operator has been awarded by The Lumen Prize (Immersive Environments in 2021 and Generative Art 2023), ADC Award (Gold Cube), S+T+ARTS Prize (Honorary Mention), and MediaFutures (a European Commission funded programme). They have spoken at events and institutions including Christie's Art+Tech Summit, University of Cambridge, Art Basel, ZKM, Francisco Carolinum Museum (Linz), Bloomberg ART+TECHNOLOGY, and MIT Open Documentary Lab. In MoMA’s 2023 Postcard Project, Operator was included as one of the first 15 artists to launch the project to the public.

In 2023, Operator developed an on-chain generative choreography method to realize their artwork Human Unreadable.