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Ashley holds a MFA in Digital + Media from Rhode Island School of Design and a BA in Film + Media Arts and Theatre Arts from American University, and is soon to teach Space and Materiality at Parsons School of Design and Spatial Dynamics at Rhode Island School of Design in the 25/26 academic yr.
Catherine Ashley is a Brooklyn-based multimedia designer and performance artist whose work spans sound, installation, performance, and moving image. With a background in film, projection, theatre, and object-making, she creates layered environments that explore gesture, memory, and systems of transformation, emphasizing visual and auditory experiences shaped by time and presence.
Ashley’s recent projects consider the entanglement between organic and constructed systems and their relationship to the inexorable characteristics of time. Her research explores how communal soundscapes, embodied memory, and time-based material processes shape forms of care, resistance, and rest. Often working site-responsively, Ashley uses sound and storytelling to cultivate spaces for reflection, relation, and repair, moving across live performance, gallery installation, and digital environments.
Ashley’s recent projects consider the entanglement between organic and constructed systems and their relationship to the inexorable characteristics of time. Her research explores how communal soundscapes, embodied memory, and time-based material processes shape forms of care, resistance, and rest. Often working site-responsively, Ashley uses sound and storytelling to cultivate spaces for reflection, relation, and repair, moving across live performance, gallery installation, and digital environments.
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