is a Nyungar technologist, writer, digital rights activist who has spent the last decade working in the tech industry. Their work focuses on custodial approaches to data management, analysing systems of surveillance, and the impacts of digital colonialism.
Here's what Kat is working on right now:
Kat's creative practice uses poetry, short fiction, and coding to explore the intersection of activism, futurism, and our relationship with machines. Their work has appeared in Cordite, Running Dog, Red Room Poetry, and Best Australian Poems. Their short speculative fiction can be found in the anthologies This All Come Back Now (UQP), The Rocks Remain (Wakefield Press) and New Australian Fiction 2024 (Kill Your Darlings).
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If you’d like to get in touch, feel free to email: kat@kgt.id.au
| Title | Link | Type | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
the station |
New Australian Fiction 2024, Kill Your Darlings | fiction | 2024 |
humanity at the digital frontierPanel discussion with Jonathan Craig, Jahra (Arieta) Wasasala, and Stelarc. |
BLEED Online | speaking | 2024 |
feast |
The Little Journal, Night Parrot Press | fiction | 2024 |
heartlines'Find friends and community to share your creative practice with. Writing doesn’t need to be a solitary experience, and I find the trope of the lone genius kind of dull. My work is always so much richer when I can bounce ideas off other people and get honest feedback.' | Centre for Stories | interview | 2024 |
in breath – a visual poetic response to Works of Nature'Even in virtual reality, the space we walk through is never inert; we walk on Country wherever we are, with particles of Country embedded in the technologies that power the machines that collect, compute and project. Even in simulation, the trees we capture hold memories and must be cared for.' |
ACMI | essay code poetry | 2024 |
campfire'Kathryn Gledhill-Tucker’s speculative fiction piece, Campfire, serves as a cautionary tale, skilfully depicting a future where Aboriginal culture navigates a “big-brother” type world, offering readers a thought-provoking narrative that could easily become a novel.' Review by Courtney Jaye in InReview. |
The Rocks Remain, Wakefield Press | fiction | 2024 |
silica'Inside a room buried beneath Kwinana is our first quantum computer, delivered in a shipping container in the mid-century. Over several weeks, a team of Noongar engineers and storytellers assembled it by hand. Cables from the undersea network feed the machine like a life support system, the thick arteries of power and data keeping the computer alive, and its aerated veins of ancestor blood lying like river branches.' | Aqueous Archives, commissioned by Fremantle Biennale for SIGNALS 23 | fiction | 2023 |
dazzle (created with Vidya Rajan)Dazzle is a mixed work of gameplay and live performance art journey for one. Through the journey of escorting an object through a labyrinth of uneasy instructions, the player is encouraged to question the curatorial impulses of being online and instead foster a sense of custodianship, all while helping the object evade the surveillance of the machine. The journey of Dazzle considers the errant object, and curation as an individuated, collection-based, transactional practice. |
Runway Journal | code | 2023 |
general instructions for operatingI was born to six mothers. Six brilliant mothers whose deft hands wove logic through my cables and spoke memory into vacuum tubes. |
Running Dog, republished in Best of Australian Poems 2023 | poetry code | 2023 |
critical thinkers, missing voices |
IAPP ANZ Summit | speaking | 2023 |
scientific speculations |
PICA | speaking | 2023 |
this all come back now |
GenreCon Brisbane | speaking | 2023 |
infinite ways to say 'I miss you'This is a generative poem built with Tracery, a tool created by Dr Kate Compton. These kinds of tools have introduced a new relationship between creators and machines, one where machines become our collaborators and co-conspirators. |
Running Dog | poetry code | 2023 |
Indigenous Futurisms: linking the past and future with technology |
ACMI | speaking | 2023 |
artificial intelligence in creative industries and practice |
Creative Australia | speaking | 2023 |
ode to echoThe content of this piece was written while playing Hyper//Echo in its final days of being online, and reflecting on the nature of the archive and digital ephemera. |
Crawlspace | poetry code | 2022 |
networkshadows form veins across the earth stretch outwards expand dissipate into soft permeable spectres |
Cordite Poetry Review | poetry | 2022 |
protocols of transferenceSometimes, the contrast between a story’s setting and Country is incongruent – but at first glance only. A gripping example is Nyungar technologist and digital rights activist Kathryn Gledhill-Tucker’s startling piece “Protocols of Transference”. It consists of shards of monologue directed towards an unspecified electronic technology, from when it “first spoke” to its final days. The narrator observes that the collapse predicted by data that had “overwhelmed our scientists” was “avoidable, had they paid attention to our country and kin.” Review by Yasmine Musharbash in The Conversation. |
This All Come Back Now, UQP | fiction | 2022 |
queer online spaces are being threatened by the government’s internet regulation |
Junkee | essay | 2022 |
digital rights under surveillance capitalism |
3CR | speaking | 2022 |
(im)material ethics |
Express Media | speaking | 2022 |
ten things I learned"Technology is not neutral. Decisions made by machines are often sold to us as superior, more objective, more accurate than human decisions, but any piece of tech is as fundamentally biased as the people who built them." |
Offscreen Issue 24 | interview | 2021 |
innovation under digital colonialismIn the same way audience building and ad targeting have left a husk of the free an open web, Big Tech companies and venture capitalists are sailing into territories already richly populated with creative humans and thriving communities, insisting the land is free to capture and claim as their own. |
Digital Rights Watch, The State of Digital Rights Report | essay | 2021 |
currentour electricity is action at a distance a small bright whiteness vibrating at a tight wavelength |
Red Room Poetry | poetry | 2021 |
creating safe spaces for mob online |
Junkee | essay | 2021 |
spotlight forum: how to protect your privacy in an increasingly tech-driven world |
ABC Radio Perth | speaking | 2021 |
big tech let the world burn |
Green Agenda | speaking | 2021 |
digital rights + environmental activism |
Digital Rights Watch, The State of Digital Rights Report | essay | 2020 |