Kerry Francksen is an experienced educator, practitioner, researcher, and digital dance artist, with over two decades of experience in both the University sector and within the creative industries. Kerry has also worked as an arts facilitator, reviewer, and consultant with cross-sector organisations. As a recipient of a Daphne Jackson Trust Fellowship award (supported by the AHRC), she is currently a Research Fellow at C-DaRE (The Centre for Dance Research) at Coventry University, exploring the impact of virtual reality and artificial intelligence on performance practices specifically focusing on advancing performer perspectives.

Her artistic interests focus on ideas relating to intimacy, presence, and togetherness, and her work centres on the complexities of engaging with bodies and advancing technologies to create sensuous and intimate performance works. She has worked with long-term creative partners, composer Simon Atkinson, filmmaker Laura McGregor, and award-winning media artists Mark Coniglio variously over the past 20 years. Her works comprise of live-mediated performance, digital dance installation, improvisation in performance, and dance for screen, in which she attempts to fuse body-based movement practices, advancing technologies (including AI), and electroacoustic sound to create meditative and sensuous environments. In the past, she has created large-scale, one-to-one dance video installations, as well as exploring technology-rich performance situations.