Lottie Sebes is a sound artist and researcher whose work investigates how power structures historically manifest in use of machines. Drawing on media archaeological approaches, she examines how humans both shape and are shaped by technological systems. As a practitioner, Lottie creates performances and installations from old and new machinery, resisting sleek techno-fetishism to develop interfaces that bring body, voice, and machine noise into dialogue, foregrounding material agency and resistance.
Lottie’s work has been presented internationally, including at Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (AU), CTM Festival (DE), Elsewhere Living Museum (USA), and iii (NL). Her writing has been published in Sonic Scope, Echo, and in her solo multimedia publication and record Veritas Ventriloquist. Lottie holds a Bachelor of Visual Arts with First Class Honours from the University of Sydney where she was awarded the University Medal and the Eleanor Sophia Wood Postgraduate Research Scholarship. She has a Master of Art in Sound Studies and Sonic Arts from UdK Berlin, where she later worked as programme coordinator from 2023-26. She is currently an affiliated researcher at CML and a PhD candidate at UNSW Sydney, where her artistic research traces and intervenes in genealogies from phonographic archives to contemporary AI voice technologies.
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