CATS+ Spring 2025 Resident Showcase
| Date | 05.17.25 |
| Doors | 7:00pm |
| Time | 7pm–10pm |
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| Admission | Free |
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| Associated Program | CATS+ |
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This event was created as part of the CATS+ Spring 2025 Residency.
This spring 5 artists-in-residence gathered for weekly sessions to explore ideas, technologies, and ways of working together. Something between an open studio, pop-up exhibition, and meetup, the CATS+ Resident Showcase is an invitation for audiences to meet the artists, explore the projects they’ve been working on, talk about process, and get inspired.
Come get curious about connecting to nature, machines, and waste sites; creating as advocacy against injustice; speaking out and speaking in code. Projection, video art, stop motion animation, photography, sculptural installation, masks, creative coding, and performance.
8:15pm - artist talks (stage)
8:45pm - performance by Laura M. Cañas P. (gallery)
Featuring new and in-progress, collaborative and solo work by: Laura M. Cañas P., Seth Garrote (Solovino), Brianna Jackson, Salome MC, and Diane Sung.
Two for One! Games Y’all, the awesome monthly showcase and social gathering of indie video games and digital art projects from the local community, will be happening at the same time. Nice!
About CATS+
The Collaborative Art + Technology Situation (CATS+) is a program for artists interested in expanding their work in digital and new media. The CATS+ Residency is a paid opportunity that brings cohorts of artists and tech wizards together to learn and collaborate on new work. CATS+ promotes troubleshooting, curiosity, and critical thinking around emerging and ubiquitous technologies. We host artist-led workshops, gatherings, mentorships, public showcases, a tech studio, an online wiki to remove the mystery from tech by foregrounding human connection, process, and experimentation.
Featuring work by
Laura M. Cañas P.
Laura M. Cañas P. (Medellín, Colombia, 1992) is an Artist and Journalist based in Austin, TX, with a bachelor's degree in Social Communication-Journalism. She is a self-taught artist and has participated in group exhibitions, artists groups, and received grants for creative projects. Laura develops work at the intersection between art and journalism, from her perspective as a Latina woman. Her main mediums are linoleum, comics, etching and digital illustration. With her art she explores the themes of the feminine, gender violence, the power to heal, resilience and relationships within nature. She is also interested in the relationship between Global North and South, decolonization, and alternative economies. @se.afilan.tijeras
Artist Wiki
Seth Garrote
Seth Garrote, stage name Solovino, is a trans masc, Mexican drag king, host, producer and multimedia artist based in Austin, Texas. Seth adopted the name Solovino almost as a love letter to himself. The name comes from a nickname people give neighborhood strays in Mexico, where he’s originally from. @sol0vin0
Artist Wiki
Brianna Jackson
Born in Houston, TX, Brianna Jackson moved to Austin in 2014 to become the first in her family to graduate from college. After three years as a biology major, one global pandemic, and a slew of run-ins with the TDCJ, Bre completed her BFA in studio art in 2022. Exploring themes of identity, aggression, and anti-authoritarianism, Bre’s art spans the realms of sculpture, drawing, and digital media. Bre has shown her work in a number of local showcases and studio tours. Her crowning achievement to date – the 300-lb welded steel sculpture, Spike, resides on permanent display outside of Sahara Lounge in East Austin. bjstudioart.com
Artist Wiki
Salome MC
Salome MC is a rapper, producer, video artist, and educator, recognized as Iran’s first female rapper where she helped shape its hip hop scene in early 2000s. In 2010 she moved to Japan after being awarded the MEXT scholarship, where she received an M.A. in audiovisual arts from Tohoku University of Arts and Design and expanded her storytelling mediums by combining music, performance art and audiovisual installations. After moving to Washington State in 2016, she founded Hip-Hop without Borders, a workshop series for visually impaired youth, later expanding it to include ESL students to explore themes of identity and belonging through hip-hop. In 2021, Salome launched Seven Climes, a non-profit collaborative music project celebrating the cultural and lingual diversity that exist within the various ethnic groups from the Middle East, amplifying the voices of the marginalized youth, and showcasing the power of hip hop as a tool for preserving languages and oral history.
Growing up in multiple Middle-Eastern countries, themes of identity, home, language and belonging is at the center of most of Salome’s work. Being born into the latter years of the Iran-Iraq war, and coming of age during the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq, themes such as militarism, imperialism, and neo-colonialism are topics that Salome keeps coming back to. As a woman growing up within the theocratic system of Iran and currently living in Texas, the focus of her topics often tilts towards feminism, gender identity, patriarchy, and organized religion. salomemc.com
Artist Wiki
Diane Sung
Diane Sung is an artist based in Austin, TX and is currently a resident artist at the Dougherty Arts Center. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Ceramics from the Kansas City Art Institute. Her work is driven by the complexities of the human experience with language, which she seeks to explore through her narrative sculptures. Though her practice is primarily based in ceramic sculpture, she also works through drawings and claymation. Having grown up in a bilingual environment, her greatest passion outside of the visual arts is learning about other languages to further enlarge her perspective on the world. @sdiane__
Artist Wiki
| Articles |
| Date | Title | Author(s) | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| 07.14.25 | CATS+CIAL Experiment: Reclaiming the Village Clown | Salome MC | CATS+ |
| 08.24.25 | Chandelier Project | Brianna Jackson | CATS+ Spring 2025 CATS+ |
| 06.25.25 | Intro to Sonic Pi and Coding Sound | Diane Sung | CATS+ Spring 2025 CATS+ |
| 06.25.25 | Much(sh)Room | Seth Garrote | CATS+ Spring 2025 CATS+ |
| 07.20.25 | The Basics of Procreate (Presentation Notes) | Laura Cañas | CATS+ Spring 2025 CATS+ |
