Catherine Schieve is a multimedia artist and composer, painter, writer and performance artist. Recently she has lived and worked in Vail Colorado USA, Sao Paulo, Brazil, and Melbourne and Wollongong, Australia, where she taught electronic arts and world music, and created paintings, compositions, CD-Roms and web sites. Her recent work investigates the translation of visual information into sound, including work with graphic notation for performers and electronic translation systems, such as the Grainger-Cross Electric Eye Tone Tool. She has a PhD in experimental music from the University of California, San Diego; and an MFA in multimedia and video art from the University of Iowa.

Schieve has worked in collaboration with Warren Burt in creating their sonic and visual contributions to JOLT's SONO PERCEPTION concerts (2008).