Robin Rutenberg is an interdisciplinary sound and media artist placing an emphasis on trans*feminist worldbuilding through storytelling, performance, game art, experiential sound and composition. Through an enmeshment of mediums, they build emotionally resonant and stimulating worlds which archive, imagine otherwise, and hold trans* narratives. Their work entwines poetics of reflection and resonance and manifests as immersive games, performances, publications, and sound works.

Their practice is steeped in ruminations on gender, family, and kinship and asks how [missed]communication and [mis]understanding within and between bodies, objects, and environment inform these relations. They are deeply interested in the affective power of using one’s voice, speaking with the body, and being witnessed as generative acts of healing and connection.

Robin holds an MA in Sound Studies and Sonic Arts from the Universität der Künste Berlin and is head of the XR Workshop at Kunsthochschule Weißensee Berlin.

Photo by Vera Klemt aka Lichttrauma