Ulla Rauter works as a media artist and musician at the interface between sound and fine art – her works include performative sculptures, music performances and self-built instruments. Her sensor-based electronic music instruments have been shown internationally in solo performances or as objects in exhibitions. Two recurring themes in her artistic work are silence as a material and place of longing and the human voice as a basic material for visual and acoustic translation and transformation processes. She is co-founder of the annual sound-art show Sound Manifestos. Since 2013 she has held a lectureship at the University of Applied Arts, Department of Digital Art. Since 2022 she has been an artist researcher in the artistic-scientific research project Semiotic Symbiosis for the Posthuman Commons of the Austrian Science Fund FWF (PEEK).