Select Publications
Books
, 2020, Tangible/Intangible: The Sound of Sculpture, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand, https://govettbrewster.com/shop/books/tangibleintangible-the-sound-of-sculpture
, 2017, Gallery Sound, Bloomsbury Academic, New York, https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.wwwproxy1.library.unsw.edu.au/lib/unsw/detail.action?docID=4891168#
, 2011, Sound, Kelly C, (ed.), MIT Press / Whitechapel Gallery, Cambridge, Mass / London
, 2009, Cracked Media: The Sound of Malfunction, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.
Book Chapters
, 2023, 'Art Music Video and the Gallery', in Traveling Music Videos, Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 107 - 120, https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/traveling-music-videos-9781501397998/
, 2021, 'Imperfection in Experimental Instruments and Their Performances', in Imperfections: Studies in Mistakes, Flaws, and Failures, Bloomsbury Academic, New York, pp. 149 - 164, http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781501380303.ch-006
, 2020, 'Livening Things Up: Australian Hand Built Electronic Instruments', in Collins N (ed.), Handmade Electronic Instruments: The Art of Hardware Hacking, Routledge, London, https://www.routledge.com/Handmade-Electronic-Music-The-Art-of-Hardware-Hacking/Collins/p/book/9780367210106
, 2019, 'A Brief Introduction to the Sound Arts in Australia', in Weibel P (ed.), Sound Art: Sound as a Medium of Art, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., pp. 668 - 675, https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/sound-art
, 2011, 'Art sonore ou son dans l’art?', in Gonseth M-O (ed.), Bruits: Echos du patrimoine culturel immatériel, Musée d'ethnographie, Neuchâtel, pp. 120 - 125
, 2011, 'Sound in Art', in Kelly C (ed.), Sound, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.
, 2008, 'The Performance of Australian Experimental Musics: From Shattered Glass to Feedback Instruments.', in Homan S; Mitchell T (ed.), Sounds of then, sounds of now: Popular Music in Australia, ACYS Publishing, Hobart
, 2007, 'Yasunao Tone: Technology/Noise', in Shiner E; Tomii R (ed.), Making A Home: Japanese Contemporary Arts in New York, Yale University Press, New York
Edited Books
Kelly C; Rutten E; Kemper J, (eds.), 2021, Imperfections Studies in Mistakes, Flaws, and Failures, Bloomsbury Academic, New York
Kelly C, (ed.), 2011, Sound, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/sound
Journal articles
, 2024, 'Sound in sight: audio and sound-focused art exhibitions in New York between 1978 and 1984', Sound Studies, 10, pp. 293 - 312, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20551940.2024.2366083
, 2023, 'Records Reformed and Reused. Nostalgic and Ecological Concerns in Contemporary Media Art', Revue musicale OICRM, 10, pp. 1 - 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1101785ar
, 2023, 'Dirt(y) media: Dirt in ecological media art practices', European Journal of Cultural Studies, 26, pp. 136754942110369 - 136754942110369, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/13675494211036964
, 2023, 'Forensic listening in the artwork of Lawrence Abu Hamdan', Sound Studies, 9, pp. 282 - 284, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20551940.2023.2232139
, 2022, 'Not Quite Sound: Silence in the Gallery', Australian Humanities Review, http://australianhumanitiesreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/AHR70_12_Kelly.pdf
, 2018, 'Materials of Sound: Sound As (More Than) Sound', Journal of Sonic Studies, https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/456784/456785
, 2013, 'Contemporary Art & The Noise of TENDING', Interference: A Journal of Audio Culture, http://www.interferencejournal.com/
, 2013, 'Resource Use and the Study Habits in a First-Year Mathematics Service Unit', Proceedings of The Australian Conference on Science and Mathematics Education, http://ojs-prod.library.usyd.edu.au/index.php/IISME/article/view/6987/7597
, 2003, 'Damaged Sound: Glitching and Skipping Compact Discs in the Audio of Yasunao Tone, Nicolas Collins and Oval.', Leonardo Music Journal, 13, pp. 47 - 52
, 2003, 'The Object of Performance: Performativity in Contemporary Laptop Performance', Contemporary Music Review, 22, pp. 59 - 65
, 2002, 'Yasunao Tone’s Wounded and Skipping Compact Discs: From Improvisation and Indeterminate Composition to Glitching CDs', Leonardo Electronic Almanac, 10
Conference Papers
, 2022, 'Cracked and Broken: Eco-Sonic Vinyl Destruction', University of Montreal, presented at From Record to Art/The Record as Art, University of Montreal, 12 May 2022 - 13 May 2022
, 2021, 'Material Sound', RMIT University, presented at More-than-sound, RMIT University, 20 September 2021 - 20 September 2021, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTRRaLv5Zht1D3t9HUoDZ9w
, 2016, 'The Sound of (Dirty) Materials', University of Amsterdam, presented at Dirt, Punk, Trash, University of Amsterdam, 01 December 2016 - 01 December 2016
, 2016, 'The Sound of Materials', Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain, presented at XXIII Festival Internacional de Arte Sonoro y Musica Electroacustica, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain, 17 November 2016 - 17 November 2016, http://www.upv.es/entidades/BBAA/infoweb/fba/info/979376normali.html
, 2016, 'Walking and listening in the contemporary art gallery', University of Queensland, presented at Translational Research in Creative Practice, University of Queensland, 02 November 2016 - 02 November 2016
, 2016, 'The Empty Sounding Gallery: Embodied Audiences in the Art Space', Melbourne, presented at Autotune Everything: Art and the Sonic, Melbourne, 18 August 2016 - 20 August 2016
, 2016, 'Intervention and Isolation: Sound in Public Art Space', McGill University, Montreal, presented at Aisthesis and the Common: Reconfiguring the Public Sphere, McGill University, Montreal, 18 March 2016 - 19 March 2016
, 2015, 'Noise in the Gallery', Universitat der Kunste Berlin, presented at die Reihe, Beitrage zu auditiver Kunst und Kultur, Universitat der Kunste Berlin, 16 July 2015 - 16 July 2016
, 2015, 'The Empty Sounding Gallery: Embodied Audiences in the Art Space', University of Cambridge, presented at Sound Studies: Art, Experience, Politics, University of Cambridge, 08 July 2015 - 10 July 2015
, 2015, 'Noise in the Gallery: Intervention and Isolation in the Gallery Arts', University of Amsterdam, presented at Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR), University of Amsterdam, 18 June 2015 - 18 June 2015
, 2015, 'Dirt(y) Media in Australian Contemporary Art', UiT Tromsø, Norway., presented at ENCODE, Dept. of Culture and Literature and the Centre for Peace Studies, UiT Tromsø, Norway., 07 June 2015 - 07 June 2015
, 2015, 'Dirt[y] Media', Goldsmiths, University of London, presented at Sonorities, Goldsmiths, University of London, 17 April 2015 - 17 April 2015, https://www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id=8528
, 2014, 'Dirt[y] Media', Milan, Italy, presented at NECS 2014, Milan, Italy, 19 June 2014 - 21 June 2014
, 2014, 'Listening: the practice of close listening within sound culture', UNSW, presented at Cultural Studies and the New Uses of Literacy Symposium, UNSW, 04 April 2014 - 05 April 2014
, 2013, 'Dirty Media', Amsterdam, presented at Creative Imperfections, Amsterdam, 28 November 2013 - 28 November 2013
, 2012, 'Glitching the Document', University of Wollongong, presented at Expanded Documentary Symposium, University of Wollongong, 06 September 2012 - 07 September 2012
, 2011, 'Marginalia in the Sound Work of Joyce Hinterding and Christian Marclay [Keynote]', Whitechapel Gallery, London, presented at Marginalia: Towards an Invisible College, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 03 November 2011 - 03 November 2011
Conference Presentations
, 2022, 'The Empty Sounding Gallery', presented at Sound as Sculpture, The Warehouse, Dallas, USA, 06 May 2022 - 06 May 2022
Curatorial Outputs
, 2019, Materials, Sounds + Black Mountain College, exhibited at: Asheville, North Carolina, 07 June 2019 - 30 August 2019, http://www.blackmountaincollege.org/material-sound/
, 2018, Material Sound, exhibited at: MAMA, Albury, 09 February 2018 - 29 April 2018, https://www.mamalbury.com.au/see-and-do/exhibitions/past-exhibitions/material-sound
, 2014, Liquid Architecture (Sydney), exhibited at: Sydney, 04 October 2014 - 05 October 2014, https://www.artdesign.unsw.edu.au/whats-on/events/liquid-architecture-sydney
, 2013, Sound Full: Sound in Contemporary Australian and New Zealand Art, exhibited at: City Gallery Wellington, 19 October 2013 - 09 February 2014, http://citygallery.org.nz/exhibitions/sound-full-sound-contemporary-australian-and-new-zealand-art
, 2012, Sound Full: Sound in Contemporary Australian and New Zealand Art, exhibited at: Dunedin Public Art Gallery; Dunedin, New Zealand, 17 July 2012 - 11 November 2012
, 2011, High Reflections, exhibited at: Red Rattler, Sydney, 25 May 2011 - 26 May 2011
, 2010, SuperDeluxe @ Artspace curated by caleb.k in the Sydney Biennale, exhibited at: Artspace, Sydney, 19 June 2010