Karen Eng is a writer and artist who works in both analogue and digital media. She has experimented with VR, blockchain and NFTs, and is especially interested in art as a catalyst for innovation, cooperation and creating communities.
My conversation with Karen took place at her home in King’s Lynn where she told me about her involvement in a large-scale sci-fi time travel adventure taking place around the town. The multi-media installation is the culmination of a two-year project run by Collusion to use art and technology to find new and positive ways to engage people with the perils of climate change. We then took to the streets to see the artworks in situ.
So I wanted to catch up with Karen to find out about how she uses art as a force for social engagement and change, but I was also intrigued to learn more about her use of technology. Karen is an early adopter and an experimenter: by her own admission she has a restless curiosity about all forms of art making – whether it is letterpress and pastels or VR and crypto.
In this episode Karen also tells me about the importance of finding a supportive online community, and how the brave new world of crypto art is here to stay.
You can listen to this episode here: https://soundcloud.com/robertgood_art/karen-eng
Next week: Madi Acharya-Baskerville discusses her mixed media sculptures that she makes using found objects and discarded ephemera, and we attempt to find cake.
