Karen ann Donnachie

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• ISEA2024

  Karen Ann Donnachie has worked exclusively in the expanded fields of cybernetic art and design since the 1990s, collaborating with Andrea (Andy) Simionato. Their works have achieved high international acclaim, winning top awards like the Tokyo Type Directors Club Grand Prize (2024), RGB Prize (2020), and TDC Prize (2019). Their AI-generated books received the 2020 Cornish Family Prize for Art and Design Book Publishing, and they were also awarded the Robert Coover Award for Electronic Literature (2020, USA). In 2023, their Nonhuman Reading Machine was acquired by Germany’s National Library’s Museum for Books and Reading. Karen Ann and her partner Andy regularly exhibit internationally, run the publishing initiative Atomic Activity Books, and designed the journal Art and Australia.