Kelly Heaton is a visual and sound artist who makes circuits that are life-like. Her work combines electronics with collage, printmaking, and sculpture to transmute static artifacts into kinetic art. Using only electronic hardware (no code), she generates vibrating signals reminiscent of birdsong, musical insects, and spiritual apparitions. Heaton’s practice of electrical engineering stems from her belief that machine intelligence arises from physical components a priori to software. Her substantial body of work, which exists at the intersection of art and science, offers evidence that consciousness arises from the whole body, not thought constructs alone. Through her expansive concept of mind, Heaton aims to convey radical empathy for the myriad forms of intelligence inhabiting Earth’s ecological circuit. She is a graduate of Yale and the MIT Media Laboratory with representation by Ronald Feldman Fine Arts.