Michelle Temple

Michelle Temple received her PhD at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in December 2022, and holds a master’s degree from NYU’s Interactive Telecommunication Program wherein she taught an electronic fabrication course and helped facilitate a circuit production lab. She specializes in producing art and DIY hardware that explores political concepts of agency which question the measurement standards of sound that reinforce binaries in the sonic world. Her audio and visual work strives to bring forward sonically under-represented populations and overlooked forms of communication. Temple is an advocate for the Deaf community and inclusivity in the disciplines of Sound Studies, Experimental Music and Art. Her most recent work, Sonic Spells, takes a deeper look at the materials in electronics which have been wielded to fulfill the inventions of those who dominate our sonic experiences and hopes to inspire a reclaiming of these raw materials by other artists/musicians in order to widen the spectrum of representation in the sonic arts