Academic CV

Education

Ph.D.Art, Literature and Cultural Studies (2020), Aarhus University (Denmark)   Dissertation: Materialities and Socialities of Participation in Sound Art  
M.A.Aesthetics and Culture (2018), Aarhus University (Denmark)   Thesis: Affordances for Participation in Sound Art   Coursework: Theory and History of Culture (2013-2016, part time), State Institute for Art Studies (Moscow, Russia).  
B.A.Cultural Studies (2012, cum laude), Institute of History of Cultures “UNIC” (Moscow, Russia)   Thesis: Musical Instruments in XXth and XXIst Century Art (Sculpture, Installation, Performance)  
A.A.S.Software Engineering and Automated Systems (2003, cum laude), St. Petersburg College of Telecommunications (Russia)

Academic positions

01.10.2025-31.03.2026Adjunct lecturer (Lehrbeauftragter) Institute for German Language and Literature, University of Hamburg 
01.07.2021-31.12.2025Research associate in the ERC-funded project Poetry in the Digital Age Institute for German Language and Literature, University of Hamburg 
01.03.2017-31.08.2020PhD Fellow School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University

Professional activities

  • Editorial board member of the peer-reviewed journal Notes on Art Criticism (since 2026)
  • Main organizer of the international conference Poetry, Music and Sound Art: Recent Medial Correlations, University of Hamburg (June 2024)
  • Main organizer and moderator of the event series Poetry Debates II: Poetry and Technology, University of Hamburg, Literaturhaus Hamburg, Thalia Theatre (October-December 2022)
  • Co-organizer of the international seminar Sound and the Public, Aarhus University (August 27, 2019)
  • Co-organizer of the annual seminar Aesthetics and Culture, Aarhus University (October 27, 2017)
  • Co-organizer of the international seminar Sound Art – Art and Sound, Aarhus University (May 19, 2017)
  • Editor of book reviews section and journal manager for the SoundEffects journal (since May 2017)
  • Co-curator of the Sound Grammars open lecture cycle, St. Petersburg Sound Museum (March – June, 2016)
  • Peer-reviewer for the journals Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Sound Studies, Biosemiotics, SoundEffects, Seismograf, Poetry off the Page, Open Philosophy.
  • Music critic for daily newspapers Kommersant, Vremya Novostey and others (2009-2012)

Teaching

Autumn 2025  Audioliterature BA/MA seminar, Institute for German Language and Literature, University of Hamburg  
Spring 2025Framing, Translating: Interdisciplinary Approaches PhD seminar, ERC-Project “Poetry in the Digital Age”, University of Hamburg.  
Spring 2023Entanglements of Literature and Pop Culture PhD seminar, ERC-Project “Poetry in the Digital Age”, University of Hamburg.  
Autumn 2022“Audio-poetry, sound poetry and music” Guest lecture in the MA coursePoetry in the Digital Age (prof. Claudia Benthien), Institute for German Language and Literature, University of Hamburg.  
Spring 2022Perceiving Poetry PhD seminar, ERC-Project “Poetry in the Digital Age”, University of Hamburg.  
Spring 2021  “Sound culture and sound(ing) art” and “Music and participation” Guest sessions in the BA course Music, Technology and Culture (asst. prof. Anders Eskildsen), Department of Communication and Psychology, Aalborg University  

“Design of interactive sound installations” Guest session in the BA course Music Performance and Production (asst. prof. Anders Eskildsen), Department of Communication and Psychology, Aalborg University  

“Participatory sound art” Guest session in the MA course Sound Design and Branding (asst. prof. Marie Koldkjær Højlund), School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University  
Spring 2020Participation and Interactivity across Disciplines BA course (5 ECTS), School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University  
Autumn 2018Sound Studies (co-taught with asst. prof. Anette Vandsø) BA course (10 ECTS), School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University  

Supervision

Co-advising PhD students in the subproject “Music(alization) and the Lyric” as subproject lead:

  • Rebecka Dürr. On Oral Interpretation in Live Poetry: Reading, Slam and Rap. 2021-2025.
  • Kira Henkel. Intimate Spaces. On the Relationship between Contemporary Poetry and New Music. 2022-2026.

Publications

Peer-reviewed monographs

  1. Digital Oral Poetry: Voice and Subjectivity in Algorithmic Culture. De Gruyter, 2026.
  2. Participatory Sound Art: Technologies, Aesthetics, Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
    2a. Partizipatorische Klangkunst: Technologien, Ästhetiken, Politiken. Springer VS, 2026. [German translation of Participatory Sound Art]

Edited books and special journal issues

  1. Poetry in the Digital Age: An Interdisciplinary Handbook. Co-edited with Claudia Benthien and Henrik Wehmeier. De Gruyter, 2025.
  2. Poetry, Music and Sound Art: Recent Medial Correlations / Lyrik, Musik und Klangkunst: neuere mediale Konstellationen. Co-edited with Rebecka Dürr and Kira Henkel. De Gruyter, 2025.
  3. Sound in the (Post-)Soviet Realm. Special issue of Journal of Sonic Studies No. 27 (2025).
  4. Sound and Participation. Co-edited with Iben Have. Special issue of SoundEffects vol. 9 iss. 1 (2020).

Peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters

  1. “Aesthetics and Politics of Participation in Benoît Maubrey’s Speaker Sculptures” (with Benoît Maubrey). Leonardo 58.1 (2025): 37-43.
  2. “Voice and Orality”. In Poetry in the Digital Age: An Interdisciplinary Handbook, edited by Claudia Benthien, Vadim Keylin and Henrik Wehmeier. De Gruyter, 2025. 133-141.
  3. “Sound Studies and Musicology”. In Poetry in the Digital Age: An Interdisciplinary Handbook, edited by Claudia Benthien, Vadim Keylin and Henrik Wehmeier. De Gruyter, 2025. 335-346.
  4. “AI Creativity and Poetry” (with Wiebke Vorrath). In Poetry in the Digital Age: An Interdisciplinary Handbook, edited by Claudia Benthien, Vadim Keylin and Henrik Wehmeier. De Gruyter, 2025. 571-582.
  5. “Künstliche Intelligenz, menschliche Stimme: Monika Rinck liest Monika Rinck [Artificial Intelligence, Human Voice: Monika Rinck Reads Monika Rinck]” (with Rebecka Dürr). In Poetry, Music and Sound Art: Recent Medial Correlations / Lyrik, Musik und Klangkunst: neuere mediale Konstellationen, edited by Rebecka Dürr, Kira Henkel and Vadim Keylin. De Gruyter, 2025. 295-312. (In German)
  6. “‘A Human Way to Talk’: Poetry and Synthetic Voice”. In Proceedings of the 2023 Aarhus International Conference on Voice Studies (SEFOS), edited by Míša Hejná et al. De Gruyter/Sciendo, 2024: 79-83.
  7. “KI-Lyrik aufführen: Ai-Da und Liza Gennart [AI Poetry in Performance: Ai-Ds and Liza Gennart]”. In Audioliterary Poetry between Performance and Mediatization / Audioliterale Lyrik zwischen Performance und Mediatisierung, edited by Marc Matter, Henrik Wehmeier and Clara Cosima Wolf. De Gruyter, 2024: 137-157. (In German)
  8. “‘Be {B}{t}. Be poet’: Beatboxing as a Poetic Device” (with Rebecka Dürr). In Literarische Organotechnik: Studien zu einer Diskurs- und Imaginationsgeschichte [Literary Organotechnics: Studies on a History of Discourse and Imagination], edited by Lars Koch, Sarah Neelsen and Julia Prager. De Gruyter, 2024: 239-255.
  9. “The Lyric Ear: On the Intersubjective Poetics of Listening Scores”. Seismograf Peer 30 (2023).
  10. “Interactive and Participatory Sound”. In The Palgrave Handbook of Intermediality, edited by Jørgen Bruhn, Asun López-Varela Azcárate and Miriam de Paiva Vieira. Palgrave Macmillan, 2023: 1115-1133.
  11. “Creative Agencies in Participatory Sound Art: Two Case Studies”. Organised Sound 28/1 (2023): 13-24.
  12. “Sound Acts: Towards a Sonic Pragmatism”. Sound Studies 7/1 (2021): 83-99.
  13. “Postcritical Listening: Political Affordances in Participatory Sound Art”. Organised Sound 25/3 (2020): 353-361.
  14. “Crash, Boom, Bang: Affordances for Participation in Sound Art”. SoundEffects 9/1 (2020): 98-115.
  15. “Medialities of Participation in Sound Art”. In Cultures of Participation: Arts, Digital Media, and Cultural Institutions, edited by Birgit Eriksson, Carsten Stage and Bjarki Valtysson. Routledge, 2019: 129-146.
  16. “Unauthored Music and Ready-Made Landscapes: Aeolian Sound Sculpture”. Gli spazi della musica 4/2 (2015): 68-85.
  17. “Corporeality of Music and Sound Sculpture”. Organised Sound 20/2 (2015): 182-190.

Academic publications without peer review

  1. Introduction to Poetry, Music and Sound Art: Recent Medial Correlations / Lyrik, Musik und Klangkunst: neuere mediale Konstellationen, edited by Rebecka Dürr, Kira Henkel and Vadim Keylin. De Gruyter, 2025. 1-25.
  2. “Sounding the Contradiction in and of the (Post-)Soviet Realm: Editorial”. Journal of Sonic Studies 27 (2025).
  3. “Intermediality And Text-to-Sound Transmutations: Interview with Maria Vilkovisky and Ruthia Jenrbekova of Krëlex Zentre”. Journal of Sonic Studies 27 (2025).
  4. “‘Songs of despair and freedom’: Interview with Sashko Protyah”. Journal of Sonic Studies 27 (2025).
  5. “I Make Noise Therefore I Am: Aesthetics of Sonic Experimentation in Participatory Art and Culture”. In Sonic Engagement: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Community Engaged Audio Practice, edited by Sarah Woodland and Wolfgang Wachon. Routledge, 2022: 177-189.
  6. “Songs of the Digital Subjects: TikTok Autotune Stories”. In Vacancy of the Poet 3: Proceedings of the International Conference “Crisis of the Poetic / Expansion of the Poetic”, edited by Alexander Zhitenev. Nauka-Unipress, 2022: 83-91. (In Russian).
  7. “‘The Poet’s Speech Leads Far Away’: Contemporary Russian Poetry through the Lens of Sound Studies”. Articulation 14 (2021; in Russian).
  8. Review of The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sound Art, edited by Sanne Krogh Groth and Holger Schulze. SoundEffects 10/1 (2021): 190-194.
  9. Review of Sonic Rupture: A Practice-led Approach to Urban Soundscape Design, by Jordan Lacey. SoundEffects 7/1 (2019): 83-86.
  10. “Postmodern Portrait of a Renaissance Man: The Music of Boris Filanovsky”. Glissando iss. 30 (2019): 133-137.
  11. “Sound Art as Participatory Practice and Institutional Critique”. Practices and Interpretations 2/4 (2018): 19-30.
  12. “Sound Sculptures in Public Space: Benoit Maubrey’s Speaker Sculptures”. Urban Studies and Practices 2/4 (2018): 51-58. (In Russian).
  13. “Politics of Participation in Benoit Maubrey’s Speaker Sculptures”. In Invisible Places: Sound, Urbanism and Sense of Place, Proceedings, edited by Raquel Castro and Miguel Carvalhais. Invisible Places, 2017: 93-100.
  14. “Biologically Inspired Sound Sculpture”. In Current Issues in Art Studies: Perspectives of the Young, Proceedings, edited by Natalia Danchenkova. State Institute for Art Studies, 2016: 95-100. (In Russian).
  15. “Electric Circuit as a Musical Instrument and a Graphic Score: Peter Vogel’s Sound Sculptures”. Opera Musicologica 2 [20] (2014): 39-50. (In Russian)


Conference presentations

2026:

Digital Oral Poetry: Stimme und Subjektivität in der algorithmischen Kultur [Voice and Subjectivity in Algorithmic Culture]. Workshop Zur Sprache Bringen: Wie oder Wenn Literatur Gehör verschafft wird [Voicing: How Literature Is Made Audible], University of Bonn (June).

Playing with identities: Who speaks in AI poetry performance? International conference Genelit: Conference on Generative AI in Art and Literature, Institute of Czech Literature CAS (September).

Digital Oral Poetry: Voice and Subjectivity in Algorithmic Culture. Book presentation at the international conference Between Sound and Text, Lund University (November).

2025:

Who speaks when everything speaks? Lyric voice(s) under the panophonic condition. Inaugural conference of the International SOUND+ Network for Transdisciplinary Research in Sound SOUND+PURPOSE, Lund University (November).

2024:

Networks of intimacy: The lyric “you” of ASMR poetry. The 7th conference of the International Society of Intermedial Studies Intermedial Networks: The Digital Present and Beyond, Linnaeus University (October)

2023:

“A Human Way to Talk”: Poetry and Synthetic Voice. Aarhus International Conference on Voice Studies, Aarhus University (August)

Who Raps? Lyric Subjectivity and Legal Personhood in the Case of FN Meka. International conference Arts and Humanities in Digital Transition, NOVA University of Lisbon (July)

(Post)Human Voices: Authenticity, Liveness and Synthesized Speech. The 4th International Network for the Study of Lyric (INSL) conference Poetry. Experience. Attention, University of Oslo (June)

I Sing the Mind Electric: Performing AI Poetry. International conference Audioliterary Poetry between Performance and Mediatization, University of Hamburg (May)

2022:

On the Poetics of Listening Scores. The 6th International Society for Intermedial Studies Conference In Between and Across: New Directions, Mappings and Contact Zones, Trinity College Dublin (September).

2021:

Songs of the Digital Subjects: TikTok Autotune Stories. International conference Vacancy of the Poet 3, Voronezh State University (online, November)

I Make Noise Therefore I Am: Sonic Experimentation in Participatory Culture. International conference Aesthetic Relations, Copenhagen University (online, January).

2019:

Co-Creative Perspectives in Participatory Sound Art. International seminar Sound and the Public, Aarhus University (August).

Non-Human Participation in Sound Art. RE:SOUND, International Conference for Histories of Media Arts, Aalborg University (August).

2018:

Political Affordances in Participatory Sound Art. International conference isaScience 2018: Participatory Approaches to Music & Democracy, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (August).

Participatory Sound Art: Technologies, Medialities, Politics. International conference Cultures of Participation, Aarhus University (April).

2017:

Between Bodies and Data: Modalities of Participation in Sound Art. International conference Music /Sonic Art: Practices and Theories, Karlsruhe University of Music (July).
Politics of Participation in Benoit Maubrey’s Speaker Sculptures. International conference Invisible Places: Sound, Urbanism and Sense of Place, University of the Azores (April).

2016:

Embodied Cognition, Corporeal Listening and Sound Sculpture. International conference Sound Art Matters, Aarhus University (June).

Urban Resonance: Site-Specific Sound Sculpture. kling gut! Symposium on Sound, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (May).

2015:

Sound Sculpture as Social Sculpture. International conference Falling out of Line: Music and the Exceptional, University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (December).

Sculpting the Record: Recycled Musical Tech in Sound Sculpture. International Conference on Music since 1900, University of Glasgow (September).

Aeolian Instruments in Contemporary Sculpture. Emerging scholars conference Thing and Context: Contemporary Approaches to Artworks, European University at Saint Petersburg (May).

2014:

Biologically Inspired Sound Sculpture. Emerging scholars conference Current Issues in Art Studies: Perspectives of the Young, State Institute for Art Studies, Moscow (April).

Public talks and panel discussions

2026:

Digital Oral Poetry: Voice and Subjectivity in Algorithmic Culture. Book presentation at the online colloquium Sound and Sensory Studies, Copenhagen University (June).

2025:

Literature Augmented. Panel discussion with Vadim Keylin, Carolin Schmidt and Nina Tolksdorf (moderator). International conference Futures of Doing Literature, Freie Universität Berlin (July)

2022:

Posthuman Creativity: Poetry and AI (Poetry Debates II.2). Panel discussion with Zuzana Husárová and Wiebke Vorrath, moderated by Vadim Keylin. Literaturhaus Hamburg (November).

Crafting Poetry with Digital Media (Poetry Debates II.1). Panel discussion with Heike Fiedler and Marc Matter, moderated by Vadim Keylin. Thalia Theater, Hamburg (October).

2019:

Things to Do with Sound: Towards a Pragmatist Aesthetics of Listening and Soundmaking. Open lecture given at the School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University, part of the Aesthetic Seminar series (December).

2018:

Participatory Sound Art: Affordances and Perspectives. Presentation given at the Sound and Sensory Studies colloquium, Copenhagen University (November).

2016:

Sound, Space and Communities: Audience Participation in Sound Art. Open lecture given at the St. Petersburg Sound Museum, part of Sound Grammars cycle (April).

Sound Sculpture as a Tool of Urban Design. Talk given as part of panel discussion Sound in the City, Museum of Moscow (June).

2015:

Sound Sculpture as Embodied Music. Open lecture given at the National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow (October).

Sonic Materiality, Embodied Cognition and Sound Sculpture. Open lecture given at St. Petersburg Sound Museum (June).

2013:

Connecting Spaces: Sound Installation and Radio Art. Open lecture given at the Department of Media Design and IT in Media, Saint Petersburg State University (March).