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= Kristen Gallerneaux =

Kristen Gallerneaux is a Canadian-American artist, museum curator, and media historian holding a Ph.D. in Art Practice & Media History (UC San Diego), an MA in Folklore (University of Oregon) , and an MFA in Art (Wayne State University).

Gallerneaux is the Curator of Communication and Information Technology at The Henry Ford in Dearborn, Michigan, where she continues to build upon one of the largest historical technology collections in North America. Her curatorial areas of specialization include histories of sound, computing, video gaming, print culture, and overlapping industrial and graphic design concerns. Along with Curator of Design, Marc Greuther, Gallerneaux is the co-curator of the re-installation of the 1964 version of the Charles and Ray Eames-designed exhibition, Mathematica: A World of Numbers... and Beyond, permanently on view in The Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation.

In 2018, she was a Future Thought speaker at Moogfest, also premiering an experimental short film concerning the infrasound phenomena known as "The Hum." In 2017, she lectured about the history of the Votrax text-to-speech synthesizer and taught an electronic music production workshop at Pop Kultur Berlin. In 2016, she was a Future Thought speaker at Moogfest, and spoke at Unsound Krakow: Dislocation.

Her first solo book, High Static, Dead Lines: Sonic Spectres & the Object Hereafter, will be released in 2018 via Strange Attractor Press and distributed by MIT Press in the United States.

Gallerneaux has also written for the Barbican Art Gallery's World of Charles and Ray Eames catalog, about the audio research group "AUDINT" for ARTnews, has covered audio bass battles in Miami for the Quietus, and studied the invention of the world’s first mousepad, created by Jack Kelley at Herman Miller Research Corporation for use in Douglas Engelbart' s "Mother of All Demos."