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. She holds a BA in Cultural Studies from Maastricht University, a rMA in Art Studies from the University of Amsterdam, and completed her PhD in Sound and Technology Studies with Prof. Karin Bijsterveld and Prof. Peter Peters. 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 Culture” (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.