Kat Austen’s artistic practice focuses on environmental issues. She melds disciplines and media, creating sculptural and new media installations, performances, and participatory work. Austen’s practice is underpinned by extensive research and theory, and is driven by a motivation to explore how to move towards a more socially and environmentally just future. Working from her studio in Berlin, Austen is Senior Fellow at University College London Arts and Sciences and Associate Artist Fellow at Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam. Her studio hosts two scientists in residence through the STUDIOTOPIA programme. In 2022 Austen was awarded a STAR+T+S Residency: Repairing the Future at Ars Electronica to develop an algae-based Vinyl alternative in cooperation with Fara Peluso. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, within her artistic practice Austen has participated in several artist in residence programs and exhibited and performed internationally, including at Wrocław Contemporary Museum, The Polar Museum, Cambridge, Kunsthalle Rostock, Opera North, UK, COP24, Fusion Festival, and Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco.