Dr. Linnea Semmerling
is Director of the Düsseldorf IMAI - Inter Media Art Institute and Assistant Professor in Sound Studies and Sound Art at Leiden University. Her first monograph “Listening on Display: Exhibiting Sounding Artworks 1960 to the Present” is forthcoming with Bloomsbury. She has previously (co-)curated and (co-)edited “Conrad Schnitzler: Sometimes it gets out of hand and turns into music” (Kunsthalle Düsseldorf / Walther König, 2023), “Fringe of the Fringe: Queering Punk Media History” (Hatje Cantz, 2023), “There is no party so noisy as the one you’re not invited to” (TENT Rotterdam, 2022), and “Sound Art: Sound as a Medium of Art” (ZKM / MIT Press, 2019), among others. Her curatorial and research interests concern socially engaged artistic practices and the relationships between technologies, institutions, and the senses.