BIO

Kadet Kuhne is a media artist based out of California whose work includes video, installation and music composition. Kadet's fever for combining audio and video began over a decade ago when she started shooting and soundtracking underground films. As an award-winning filmmaker, she has numerous film and video shorts that are screened worldwide, most recently at Sundance Film Festival. Her SCAN: video short series has screened at the NOT STILL ART Festival, Aurora Picture Show, Barnsdall Art Park, Highways Performance Gallery, Outfest Festival and MIX NY Film Festival, amongst others. Her experimental film short Impact Zone received the Best Experimental Award from the New York Underground Film Festival in 1996 and her film short Count Dykula is distributed by Wolfe video as part of the She's Safe compilation of safe-sex videos by women.

Kadet designs interactive, audiovisual installations for galleries and museums which involve a combination of sensors, live processing, interactivity using software applications such as Jitter and Director. Her most recent Holding Pattern series has been exhibited at LACMA, Fringe Exhibitions Gallery, REDCAT and The Brewery Project in Los Angeles. Themes explored are conditioned behavioral patterns as they relate to communication and control. In collaboration with Reto Schmid of testrun, Kadet developed an interactive, 3D installation, Sensorium, which has been exhibited at the Museum of Art Lucerne, Galerie Oxyd in Switzerland, Platinum Oasis and at the Transcinema '02 Festival in San Francisco.

Kadet's audio installation work centers around the creation and perception of spatialized environments with customized devices and hacked electronics. She collaborated with Sara Roberts and Palle Henckel on an interactive sound game/installation Segmented Path for the show A Mile of Art, curated by New Town Arts. The customized recording units that Henckel developed for this installation were also part of a collaborative show Bird's Eye View with Tom Leeser and Allison Saar at Overtones Gallery, as well as the Mania for Coleslaw show at Highways Gallery in Los Angeles.

Kadet's experimental music composition is comprised of manipulated ambient and percussive textures. Her compositions are built from her extensive library of sound effects which she processes beyond recognition with customized software. Kadet has two solo CD releases, Seismic and Thin Air, and is featured on two SOUNDWALK compilations, MONO:POLY and Women Take Back The Noise. She has been performing live since 1998 as a solo performer at festivals and venues including The CEAIT Festival and The Knitting Factory, and has worked in collaboration with Mark Dresser, Thomas Dimuzio and mem1. Kadet was the co-founder of the women in electronic music collective Aural Fixation in 1999 which produced live music performances with video installation at The LAB & Minna Street Gallery in San Francisco, and released two compilation CDs with the 12 members.

Since graduating with an MFA in Music Composition & Integrated Media at CalArts, Kadet has moved into teaching Sound Design, Theory and Production courses and owns a Post-Production Sound studio, Audible Shift, where she is currently working for Google as an Audio Lead. She has been the Sound Designer on numerous independent films including Northfork, Dream With the Fishes, Happy Tree Friends, Rise Above, Strange & Charmed and many others.