*1979 in Linz, Austria

Heike Kaltenbrunner received her MFA from the department for “Digital Art” at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, where she first focused on the interventional approach to media art and later on sound-art and installation work. In 2005, she received a Sokrates Grant at the UDK Berlin, where she attended courses at the UNI.K – Studio für Klangkunst und Klangforschung and at the Fakultät für Gestaltung. Since 2006, she has been exploring contact improvisation class and is currently incorporating its ideas of contact into her artistic projects.

She has exhibited in Belfast, Dresden and Novo Mesto/Slowenia, played live electronics with the “Geräusch Orchester” of the ELAK, and participated in projects like “TRAMJAM V.02,” “Things that make sounds,” and “theHub”–an approach to the establishing of a Time-Object.

During a residency in the Media Art Laboratoy in Graz, she developed the installation “About the life and death of neutron Stars and TV-sets” in which the sounds of pulsars generate pictures on manipulated cathode tubes and slowly destroy them.