About me
Linnea Semmerling is director at the Düsseldorf Inter Media Art Institute (IMAI) and assistant professor in sound studies and sound art at Leiden University's Sound Studies Center (SSC). Recent research and exhibition projects into IMAI's distribution archive of more than 3.000 works of media art include ‘Fringe of the Fringe: Queering punk media history’ (Hatje Cantz, 2023), ‘Conrad Schnitzler: Manchmal artet es in Musik aus’ (Kunsthalle Düsseldorf and Walther König, 2023), and 'IMAI Play: A participatory video art channel' (stiftung-imai.de, 2021). Her research and curatorial practice is devoted to exhibiting, distributing, and preserving sound and media art with special attention to the accessibility and diversity of audiovisual collections.