Vadim Keylin

research interests: sound studies, sound art, partipation, digital culture, poetry, participatory art, participatory culture, creativity
affiliation: University of Hamburg
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Vadim Keylin is a sound art scholar and poet. He holds a PhD in Art, Literature and Cultural Studies from Aarhus University and is currently a research associate in the ERC-funded project Poetry in the Digital Age, University of Hamburg, working on a book on new forms of oral poetry in digital culture. Keylin’s monograph Participatory Sound Art: Technologies, Aesthetics, Politics was published in Palgrave Macmillan’s Studies in Sound series in 2023. In addition to his research activities, he is the author of two poetry books and a number of poetry collections in journals and anthologies.

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  • “Songs of despair and freedom”. Interview with Sashko Protyah. (2025) author(s): Vadim Keylin published in: Journal of Sonic Studies
    Sashko Protyah is a film director and activist from Mariupol, Ukraine. He's a co-founder of Freefilmers, a collective of artists and filmmakers. In his films, he works with topics of memory, otherness, and alienation. Now Sashko is based in Zaporizhzhia and volunteers for IDPs and the Ukrainian army. This interview was taken in February 2024 over email.
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  • Intermediality And Text-to-Sound Transmutations. Interview with Maria Vilkovisky and Ruthia Jenrbekova of krëlex zentre (2025) author(s): Vadim Keylin published in: Journal of Sonic Studies
    Maria Vilkovisky is a poetess, musician, artist, and curator born in Almaty, Kazakhstan. She graduated from the Kazakh State Conservatory as a violist, worked in the opera house orchestra, studied at the “Musagethes” literary school for writers in Almaty and at the curatorial summer school in Moscow. She is co-founder of a long-term para-institutional project called Krëlex zentre (together with Ruthia Jenrbekova), and from 2011–2014 she ran an art space in Almaty. She lives and works in Almaty and Vienna. Ruthia Jenrbekova is an artist and researcher from Almaty, Kazakhstan. She holds an MA in ecology and works as an intermedia cultural organizer. She is co-founder of Krëlex zentre together with Maria Vilkovisky. She is currently a PhD candidate at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and lives and works in Almaty and Vienna. Her fields of interest: queer ecology, material semiotics, arts-based methodologies, transfeminism. Krëlex zentre is a paranormal art institution that builds on cultural traditions of intermixed planetary diasporas, develops inclusive aesthetics, and promotes queer cosmo-politics. This interview by poet and Sound Studies scholar Vadim Keylin took place from March to April 2024 via Google Docs and has been edited for clarity. Literature references were added during the editing process.
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  • Editorial: Sounding the Contradictions in and of the (Post-)Soviet Realm (2025) author(s): Vadim Keylin published in: Journal of Sonic Studies
    Editorial: Sounding the Contradictions in and of the (Post-)Soviet Realm
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