BIOGRAPHY

Kadet Kuhne (they/them) is a sound and visual artist engaging community through interactive, immersive and performative works. Taking form in video, installation, interactive sound, AR/VR, 3D printing, and 2D print. Kadet’s work aims to prompt visceral responses to the invisible forces that impact and connect us. With a digitally manipulated aesthetic contrasted by ambient spaciousness, Kadet explores our digital nervous system, our human possibility, and the network of ecosystems we live in. Kadet leverages their knowledge of emerging technologies to build transformative and immersive worlds and experiences beyond our own.

Kadet’s works have been presented internationally at venues such as: Museum of Art Lucerne, Society for Art and Technology (Montreal), Sonar Festival (Barcelona), Mutek (Montreal), GIASO Network Music Festival (France), Villa Arson (France), Sound//Space Gallery (London), Antimatter Festival (Toronto), niu: espai artistic contemporani (Barcelona), Madame Claude (Berlin), and select national venues: Sundance, Hammer Museum, LACMA, REDCAT, Torrance Art Museum, LACE Gallery, Outfest, SFMOMA, YBCA, De Young Museum, SOMArts, Soundwave SF Festival, Crossroads Film Festival, SFEMF, Fort Mason Center for the Arts, Shapeshifters Cinema, and Aggregate Space Gallery, where Kadet’s most recent solo show was exhibited.

Collaborative, community involvement is integral to Kadet’s art practice. Kadet has served on the screening committees for Sundance and Frameline LGBTQ Film Festivals, and on the boards of Mediate Art Group, San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, and San Francisco Cinematheque. Kadet’s work engages the expertise and involvement of artists locally and internationally, developing projects with artists including Alba G. Corral, Suki O’Kane, Gregory Dawson, mem1, and Mary Franck. 

Kadet’s most notable awards and residencies include: Alternative Exposure Grant from Southern Exposure, SECA Nominee Award SFMOMA, Can Serrat Visual Arts Residency Award (Barcelona), STEIM (Amsterdam), and Forward Slash Story residency for digital creatives (Kenya). Their 2021 short film Sym was awarded Best Sound and First Runner Up at Aggregate Space’s International Animated Shorts Festival. 

Kadet received a Master’s in Integrated Media and Music Composition from the California Institute of the Arts. Notable independent filmmakers Kadet worked for include Cheryl Dunye, Sam Green, Silas Howard, Jenni Olson, Nao Bustamante, and Tina Takemoto. Kadet’s collaborative relationship with internationally renowned artist Cassils dates back to 2009, designing sound for their multichannel sound installations, video installations, and live performances, including live sound design for Inextinguishable Fire at the National Theater in London in 2015. Kadet has designed and composed sound for all genres of media, with interactive media clients including Electronic Arts, Google, Disney, Telltale Games (Walking Dead, Batman, Minecraft, Guardians of the Galaxy). Konami, Mattel, and Infosys.

CURRICULUM VITAE

Education

2004 Master of Fine Arts (Music Composition, Integrated Media), California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California

Solo Exhibitions

2018 Null Extension, Aggregate Space Gallery, Oakland, California
2015 Converge: Sedimentary Noise, YBCA, San Francisco, California
2014 Kadet Kuhne: The Way Through, Krowswork Gallery, Oakland, CA
2013 Kadet Kuhne, Shapeshifters Cinema, San Francisco, California

Selected Group Exhibitions

2021 Aggregate Animated Shorts, Aggregate Space Gallery, Oakland, California
The Cyborg Project, The 418 Project, Santa Cruz, California
2019 Bauhaus at 100, Ruth’s Table Gallery, San Francisco, California
Seeing Sound, Pence Gallery, Davis, California
2018 A History of Violence, SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, California
Kinetic, Jason Vass Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Resonant Shift, Photofairs at Fort Mason Center for Arts, San Francisco, California
Women in 3D Printing, Autodesk Gallery, San Francisco, California
2017 Carapace, Sónar, Barcelona, Spain
From Self to #Selfie, SOMArts, San Francisco, California
2016 Dada Here & Now, SF International Arts Festival, San Francisco, CA
Creative Labor: Queer-It-Yourself Expo and Faire, SOMArts, San Francisco,
California SF Cinematheque Auction, Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco, California
2015 SUPERSTRATA, The Compound Gallery, Oakland, CA
Bay Area Digitalists, Root Division Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Carapace, Society of Art & Technology, Montreal, Canada
2014 Quantum Tunneling, Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, CA
YBCA In Community, Alter Space, San Francisco, CA
Meditations from the Bay Area, ArtsWalk, Washington, DC
As Machines Shine, Water World, Alter Space, San Francisco, CA
2013 Rebound, Hybrid Identities, Camaguey, Cuba
Trial of Socrates, SMART Cities & Hybrid Identities, Venice, Italy
Rebound, Hybrid Identities, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Impact Zone, SFMOMA The Making of, San Francisco, CA
Fight or Flight and Infinite Delay, The Futures Project, Mobile, Alabama
2012 FSOK, Collective JukeBox 4.04, Villa Arson, Nice, France
Volution, Viralnet, Mount Wilson Observatory, Los Angeles, CA
Soundfjord, Sound//Space, London, United Kingdom
2011 Collective Jukebox 4.04, Contemporary Art Center Villa Arson, Nice, France
Garden Railway, Conservatory of Flowers, San Francisco, CA
2010 rE/visioning the Collection, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
Slayed Still, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Holding Pattern series, Marina Abramovic Institute, San Francisco, CA
Infinite Delay, Alphonse Berber Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2009 Holding Pattern series, Marina Abramovic Institute, San Francisco, CA
Fight or Flight, MIXNYC, New York, NY
Fight or Flight, Soundwalk, Long Beach, CA
2008 Infinite Delay, Projections on Lake, Pasadena, CA
Synaptic, Illuminated Corridor, Oakland, CA
2007 Infinite Delay, Fringe Exhibitions Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Infinite Delay, MIXNYC, New York, NY
2006 Scan: series, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, CA
Synaptic, SoundWalk2005, Los Angeles, CA
Core, Highways Performance Space, Los Angeles, CA
Causal, Brewery Arts Project, Los Angeles, CA
Causal, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2004 Sensorium, Museum of Art, Lucerne, Switzerland
Sensorium, Galerie Oxyd/Winterthur, Switzerland
Segmented Path, Highways Performance Space, Los Angeles, CA
White Room, SoundWalk2004, Los Angeles, CA
Scan: Suskin Sisters, Highways Performance Space, Los Angeles, CA
FSOK, Collective Jukebox 4.03, Museo Fotografia Contemporanea, Italy
Bird’s Eye View, Overtones Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Scan: Series, Abakus 2.0 Creation.Counts, Los Angeles, CA

Selected Audio/Visual Performance

2020 Shapeshifters Cinema, Oakland, CA
2018 Carapace, Electric Castle, Cluj, Romania
2016 Sedimentary Noise, Soundwave Festival, San Francisco, CA
Resonant Luminance, Gray Area, San Francisco, California
Re:Sound, Mare Island Bunker, Vallejo, California
2015 GIASO, STWST48, Stadtwerkstatt, Linz, Austria
Everybody’s Ocean, Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, CA
Resonant Luminance, Crossroads Film Festival, San Francisco, CA
2014 GIASO, La Gaterie: Festival In-Ouïe, La Roche-sur-Yon, France
Mutek/Elektra Festival, Montreal, Canada
ix Symposium, Montreal, Canada
SOMArts Night Light, San Francisco, CA
GIASO, Htmlles Festival, Montreal, Canada
ROOM: The Body Electroacoustic, San Francisco, CA
2013 GIASO Live Streaming Orchestra, Nantes, France
APO33 Berlin Radio Show, Berlin, Germany
Shapeshifters Cinema, San Francisco, CA
KTCHN, Mack Sennett Studio, Los Angeles, CA
2012 Madame Claude, Berlin, Germany
Beyond Signal, Nantes, France
Niu: espai arstistic contemporani, Barcelona, Spain
Ivry-sur-Seine, Paris, France
SoundFjord, Sound//Space Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Soundwave Festival, San Francisco, CA
2011 Niu: espai artistic contemporani, Barcelona, Spain
San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Sound and Shape, Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Milk Bar, San Francisco, CA
Fantastic Optosonic Projections, Space Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2010 Friday Nights at de Young, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
Perform! Now! Festival, Los Angeles, CA
Outsound New Music Summit, San Francisco, CA
Zoom2, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
Electronic Cinema, Artists’ Television Access, San Francisco, CA
Subtle Body Series, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Projections on Lake, Pasadena, CA
2009 Cinematheque, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Resonant Forms Festival, LACE Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Swissnex + Volume Festival, San Francisco Art Institute, CA
Hysterica Dance, Crust Show, Unknown Theater, Los Angeles, CA
Sound In Space II, Sea and Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Toxic/Nourishment, Alvin Ailey Citigroup Theater, New York City, NY
2008 ResBox Music Series, Steve Allen Theater, Los Angeles, CA
2007 San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, San Francisco, CA
Electronic Music Midwest, Kansas City Performing Arts Center, Kansas
2006 CEAIT Festival, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, CA
Surge & Converge, The Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Women Take Back The Noise, 21 Grand Gallery, Oakland, CA
2005 The Bone Ladder, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Drive, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
so.cal.sonic Festival, California State University, Long Beach, CA
Merging Voices, California State University, Fullerton, CA
Radical Cuts, Crazy Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
SCAN: series, CEAIT Festival, Selah Art Space, Los Angeles, CA
ctrl+alt+repeat, Ill Corral, Los Angeles, CA
2004 Twine, The Knitting Factory, Los Angeles, CA
Hacking the Timeline, Crazy Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Physic3, Beyond Baroque, Los Angeles, CA

Selected Film Screenings

2021 Aggregate Animated Shorts Film Festival, Roxie Theater, San Francisco, California
2015 Sedimentary Noise, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Resonant Shift, Crossroads Film Festival, San Francisco, CA
Resonant Shift, Endangered Languages, Root Division Gallery, SF, CA
2014 Quantum Tunneling, Antimatter Film Festival, Victoria, BC, Canada
Fight or Flight and Infinite Delay, Future Tense, Los Angeles, CA
Quantum Tunneling, Crossroads Film Festival, San Francisco, CA
Quantum Tunneling, SOMArts Night Light, San Francisco, CA
Fight or Flight, NightVisions, Providence, Rhode Island
2013 Rebound, Antimatter Film Festival, Victoria, BC, Canada
Quantum Tunneling, Rebound, Fight or Flight, Shapeshifters Cinema, SF
Impact Zone, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
2012 Rebound, Liquid Identities, Venice, Italy
Infinite Delay, Make Music Festival, Los Angeles, CA
Infinite Delay, MIA, Armory Center for the Arts, Los Angeles, CA
Rebound, Soundwave Festival, San Francisco, CA
2011 Trial of Socrates, Antimatter Film Festival, Victoria, BC, Canada
Trial of Socrates, Image + Nation Film Festival, Montreal, Canada
2010 Trial of Socrates, Alternative Video Festival, Belgrade, Serbia
Fight or Flight, London Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, London, United Kingdom Infinite Delay, Issue Project Room, New York, New York
Fuck Film, MIXNYC, New York, New York
2009 Infinite Delay, Fight or Flight, YBCA, San Francisco, CA
Fight or Flight, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
Fight or Flight and Infinite Delay, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
Fight or Flight, Antimatter Film Festival, Victoria, BC, Canada
Infinite Delay, Image + Nation Festival, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Fight or Flight, Soundwalk, Long Beach, CA
Fight or Flight, Outfest Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Infinite Delay, Antimatter Film Festival, Victoria, BC, Canada
2007 Infinite Delay, Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah
Infinite Delay, Ozone Film Festival, Covington, Louisiana
Infinite Delay, LA Shorts Fest, Los Angeles, California
Infinite Delay, REDCAT, Los Angeles, California
Infinite Delay, SFEMF, San Francisco, California
2006 SCAN: Suskin Sisters, Not Still Art Festival, Brooklyn, New York
SCAN: A Couple, Outfest Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA
SCAN: A Lady’s Glove: 21 Grand, Oakland, CA
2005 SCAN: series, Musiques Digital, Prague, Czech Republic
SCAN: Suskin Sisters, Aurora Picture Show, Houston, Texas
SCAN: Lady’s Glove and SCAN: Suskin Sisters, New Music Festival, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
2004 SCAN: A Couple, REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA
SCAN: A Couple, Highways Performance Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
SCAN: Suskin Sisters, Highways Performance Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
SCAN: A Couple, Timbrespace, Los Angeles, CA

Discography

2022 Null Extension by Kadet, Tektonic Shift
2020 Sedimentary Noise by Kadet, Tektonic Shift
2018 100% Synthetic, DVD Compilation, Estuary, ltd.
2015 GIASO compilation, APO33
2014 Gradient Wake by Kadet, Fibrr Records
2012 Matter of Mind by Kadet, Tektonic Shift
2009 Mem1 + 1 compilation, Interval Recordings
2008 Unusual Animals compilation, Asthmatic Kitty Records
2007 San Francisco Electronic Music Festival compilation, SFEMF
2006 Women Take Back the Noise compilation, Ubuibi
2005 SoundWalk 2005 compilation, FLOOD Productions
2004 Thin Air by Kadet, current-recordings/TektonicShift
SoundWalk 2004 compilation, FLOOD Productions
2002 Seismic by Kadet, Tektonic Shift
Mono:Poly compilation, Asphodel/Gench
2000 Aural Fixation compilation, Aural Fixation

Recent Press

2018 Hare, Harold. “Aggregate Space Gallery: Null Extension by Kadet Kuhne.” Artful Hare.
2016 Colbert, Maile Costa.”Waves Unseen: The Idea of Silence, And three works within the visible and invisible.” Absentia.
Sarah, Lakshmi. “Migrating Through Experimental Sound and Samosas on Mare Island“. KQED Arts.
2015 Pinsent, Ed. “Net Lingo.” The Sound Projector.
Mavrikakis, Nicolas. “Faire croire à des illusions visuelles.” Le Devoir.
Nguyen, Eliza. “Carapace/Quantum & Nimbes at SAT.” Concordia Undergraduate Journal of Art History.
2014 Auer, Theo Konrad. “Kadet Kuhne: The Way Through.” Stretcher.

Awards & Residencies

2018 Forward Slash Story, Lamu, Kenya
2010 STEIM, Technology Orientation, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2009 Nominee; SECA Award, SFMOMA; San Francisco, California
2009 Alternative Exposure Grant from Southern Exposure, SF, CA;
Can Serrat Visual Arts Residency Award, Barcelona, Spain

Board of Directors

2017-2014 SF Cinematheque, San Francisco, CA
2015-2013 Mediate Art Group, San Francisco, CA

Curatorial

2013-2008 San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, CA
2013-2010 Art is On salon series, San Francisco, CA
2010 Electronic Cinema, San Francisco, CA
2007 Sundance Film Festival, Salt Lake City, Utah
2006 The Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005 Radical Cuts, Crazy Space, Los Angeles, CA
2004 CEAIT Festival, CalArts and REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA
2003 CEAIT Festival, REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA

Guest Artist Lectures

2022 Diablo Valley College, Bill Wolter, Interactive Media
2018 California College of the Arts; Justin Carter and Rudy Lemcke, Sound Department
2016 Stanford University; Mary Franck, Art & Art History;
California State University East Bay, Ian Pollack, Graduate Media Forum
2015 Berkeley City College; Adele Ray, Multimedia Department
2013 University of California, Los Angeles; Maja Manojlovic, Aesthetics of Digital Narratives
2011 California College of the Arts; David Burns, Fine Arts;
California Institute of the Arts; Tom Leeser, Integrated Media
2009 University of San Francisco, Sam Green, Documentary Production
2007 Stanford University, Amy Harrison, Video Art
2005 University of Southern California, J. Jack Halberstam, Media Studies
2003 University of California, San Diego, J. Jack Halberstam;
California Institute of the Arts, Hillary Kapan, Interactive Media

Teaching

2017-2010 Art Institute of California, San Francisco, Interactive Media, Sound For Emerging Media, Intermediate and Advanced Post-Production Sound, Production Sound Recording, and Fundamentals of Audio in the Digital Film/Video and Audio Departments; Adjunct Faculty
2016 Berkeley City College, Advanced Sound Design in the Multimedia Arts Department; Adjunct Faculty
2014 Bay Area Video Coalition, Sound for Film; Instructor
2009 Women’s Audio Mission, Sound for Film; Instructor
2008 California College of the Arts, Oakland, Sound for the Moving Image in the Media Arts Department; Adjunct Faculty
2007-2005 University of California, San Diego, Sound Theory, Sound Production, and Post Production Sound in the Visual Arts and Communications Departments; Adjunct Faculty
2006-2004 Art Institute of California, Los Angeles, Sound Production and Advanced Sound Design in the Film/Video Department; Adjunct Faculty
2004 California Institute of the Arts: Sound Editing & Design and Digital Media in the Film/Video Department, and Integrated Media Seminar as part of the Integrated Media Program; Teaching Assistant

ARTIST STATEMENT

From a long-standing tradition of avant-garde filmmaking and improvisational music composition, I see my work as an extension of experimental practice in an age of hyper-communication and digital saturation. Prompting erratic and discursive thought patterns and emotional responses, my digitally manipulated aesthetic, contrasted with ambient reflection, is intended to heighten tensions between motion and stasis: a balanced, yet heightened “nervous system” to reflect our own.

Sound and image physically interact with our bodies’ molecules and stimulate neurological responses. I am interested in the nerve stimulus that causes our initial physical reactions, and in transforming these reactions into immersive works. Physical expressions can be transferred into images through digital media, which in turn can be translated into audible frequencies. A deep exploration of technologies are executed with precision to captivate viewers’ visual and auditory senses and create an intimate world within each piece.

Through my interactive, immersive works I seek to stimulate the viewer’s brain by composing synthetic stimuli to form somatic experiences which can prompt visceral, even pre-verbal emotional and physical responses to sound and movement. Comprised of intervals, disjunctions and suspensions of space-time, the situations presented in my experiential narratives attempt to capture, play and delay—from anxiety to resolve. Between pain, pleasure, the erotic, and the political, this tension morphs into another state, imbued with textures of self-imposed and societal boundaries and bondages.

In each of my works I hope to open for the individual viewer an expanded sense of the possibilities and realities of their own bodily existence, and interconnectedness to others, through a series of physically and emotionally sympathetic responses.