Joel Stern

Joel Stern is is a curator, artist and researcher interested in theories and practices of sound and listening. He is co-director of Liquid Architecture, a leading Australian organisation for artists working with sound, and founded projects including OtherFilm and Instrument Builders Project. He has curated festivals, publications, exhibitions, screenings and concerts in Australia and internationally since the early 2000s. In 2018, with James Parker, he curated Eavesdropping, a major investigation into the politics and ethics of listening. He produces and performs experimental music and sound works under his own name and in bands including Sky Needle and Soft Power. He is a PhD candidate in Curatorial Practice at Monash University, Melbourne.