Karen ann Donnachie is an electronic artist and works with her partner Andrea (Andy) Simionato in the expanded fields of AI, robotics, typography and experimental publishing.

 

They were awarded the Tokyo Type Directors Club Award in 2019, 2020 and in 2024 they received the prestigious TTDC Grand Prize for their automated-art-system called "The Jagged Orbit" which explores day dreaming and distraction in intelligent machines. In 2020, the duo was awarded the Cornish Family Prize for Art and Design Publishing, for one of their A.I. designed books called ‘Perception’.

 

Their works have been exhibited and collected around the world, including the Triennale Design Museum, Milan. In 2023 their nonhuman reading machine was added to the permanent collect of the Museum of Books and Writing, housed in the German National Library, Leipzig, Germany.  The museum is the world’s oldest museum of book culture, while its scope and the quality of its holdings also make it one of the most important.

 

Design and the Post-Digital, Designing Publications, Designing Disobedience,