Kelly Chen is a writer, improviser, and researcher working and living in Philadelphia, PA. She produces hardware and software to reveal the intersecting histories of computation, craft, moving image, and dramaturgy, as they relate to authority, resistance, and agency in social and political systems. Her performances utilize shadows, amplified surfaces, motors, sensors, radios, field recordings.
Her performances seek to problematize technological routines and expose the drama of everyday life.
Recently: “Digital Iridescence: Jell-O in New Media”, Oct. 28 , 2023 - Mar. 24, 2024, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Curated by Kendall DeBoer
snow drive/death drive
KISS:FLY:AIR:BELT
Herons to Herons
Missed Connections
Verbs for Cybernetic Theater
ELIZA, STARS ARE BLIND
Surveillance Portraits
Desire Path
WHERE THE CHERRIES END
Perl Poems
Inventories
Horse Room
Cybernetic Opera Company
Writing
Performance
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Are.na/Kelly Chen
Substack
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Her performances seek to problematize technological routines and expose the drama of everyday life.
Recently: “Digital Iridescence: Jell-O in New Media”, Oct. 28 , 2023 - Mar. 24, 2024, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Curated by Kendall DeBoer
snow drive/death drive
KISS:FLY:AIR:BELT
Herons to Herons
Missed Connections
Verbs for Cybernetic Theater
ELIZA, STARS ARE BLIND
Surveillance Portraits
Desire Path
WHERE THE CHERRIES END
Perl Poems
Inventories
Horse Room
Cybernetic Opera Company
Writing
Performance
Information
Are.na/Kelly Chen
Substack
Contact