Clot Magazine

Media historian and artist Kristen Gallerneaux is the Curator of Communications and Information Technology at The Henry Ford Museum (Dallas, USA), where she takes care of things like computers, and also things like radios, televisions, things that have tubes and transistors. The museum is one of the largest historic collections in North America. Kristen’s universe, who was raised in a generations-long Spiritualist family, is surrounded by visionary architecture, local micro-histories of sinister small towns, ‘thing theory’, vernacular technoculture, aesthetic failure, contact magic, monster magazines, learning to weave, sound studies, and visual legends and legend trips, in her words. Through her writings, she has covered an extensive range of topics like the audible history of paranormal culture and the visual history of telepathy research. CLOT Magazine got the chance to speak to Kristen during 2016 edition of Unsound Festival: Dislocation (Kraków, Poland) where she gave the talk ‘Sonic Spectres’. There