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"The most consistently rewarding of the first-generation sound-artists." -- Keith Fullerton Whitman Christina Kubisch belongs to the first generation of sound artists. Trained as a composer, she studied painting, music (flute and composition), and electronics in Hamburg, Graz, Zürich, and Milan, where she graduated. Her work can be described as the "synthesis of arts"--the discovery of acoustic space and the dimension of time in the visual arts on the one hand, and a redefinition of relationships between material and form on the other. Kubisch is best known for artistically and innovatively using techniques such as magnetic induction and ultraviolet light to create and realize her work. Since the 1970s, Kubisch has been experimenting with electromagnetic induction and was one of the first to use this method for creating sound installations. Some of her most well-known works include the Electrical Walks series, where audience members wear magnetic headphones, specially designed by Kubisch, with built-in coils that respond to electrical fields in the environment. Tapping into the electrical fields that result from light systems, anti-theft security devices, surveillance cameras, cell phones, computers, antennae, automated teller machines, and other electric devices, she uses these visible sources to create unique and new sensory environmental experiences.