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Kelly Kirshtner

  • Associate Professor, Film, Video, Animation and New Genres
  • Director, Undergraduate Studies
  • Co-Chair, Curriculum Committee

Education

  • Ph.D., Visual Studies, University of California, Irvine
  • MFA, Art & Technology, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
  • Certificate in Critical Theory Emphasis, University of California, Irvine

Biography

Dr. Kelly Kirshtner is an interdisciplinary artist, sound designer, writer, and educator whose work centers on process-driven and speculative approaches to storytelling through sound, moving image, and intermedia practices. Her work examines predicaments of embodiment, synchronization, and perception, often focusing on systems and phenomena at the verge of unraveling. Kirshtner has exhibited and performed nationally and internationally across film festivals, performance spaces, and other site-responsive topographies. Recent projects include the durational satellite-writing work In the Shoulder Season (March–April 2020) and the live soundscape performance series Falling, in Terms of Silent (2015–2020). Her scholarly writing addresses topics such as early cinema sound and performance, radio and film sound practices, horror aesthetics, and sonic ecologies. As an educator, she teaches undergraduate courses in sound design, genre theory, audio post-production, and audiovisual aesthetics. At the graduate level, she has developed and taught theory-practice seminars including Participatory Ecologies, Site & Community, Sound as Method, Art & Material, and Aurality, Recording, & Representation.

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Recent & Selected Work

A person in front of a table full of various items for Foley work. A microphone hangs over top.
Performance still from “Falling in Terms of Silent”
A series of satellite maps of many different paths taken, listed with which date they are from
Documentation from “In the Shoulder Season” (2020)