Kristen Gallerneaux is an artist, curator, and sonic researcher holding a Ph.D. in Art Practice & Media History from UC San Diego, an MA in Folklore, and an MFA in Art. She is also the Curator of Communication and Information Technology at The Henry Ford Museum in Detroit, Michigan, where she continues to build upon one of the largest historical technology collections in North America.
In 2017, she spoke about the history of the Votrax speech-to-text synthesizer and taught a workshop at Pop Kultur Berlin. In 2016, she was a Future Thought speaker at Moogfest: The Synthesis of Art, Technology & Music, and spoke at Unsound Krakow: Dislocation. She has written for the Barbican Center, ARTnews, and the Quietus. She has published on wide-ranging topics like mathematics in midcentury design, the visual history of telepathy research, the world’s first mousepad, and car audio bass battles in Miami. Her forthcoming book, High Static, Dead Lines, will be released in May 2018 via Strange Attractor Press and distributed by MIT Press in the US.