Karen O'Rourke

Karen O'Rourke is an artist and Emeritus Professor at Jean Monnet University in Saint-Etienne. Her personal work tends to relate artistic practice to the notions of network, archiving and territory. She has published numerous articles in journals (Leonardo, Livraison, Aperture, La revue du Cube, AI & Society, Figures de l'art, Plastik, etc.) and collective works (Art-Réseaux, Territoires, Art++). She is the author of two works of synthesis; Walking and Mapping: Artists as Cartographers (MIT Press, 2013) and From arts-networks to programmed drifts: the relevance today of “art as experience”.