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Shilla Strelka is a festival curator, concert organiser, lecturer and journalist, based in Vienna. She studied digital media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and graduated in theatre, film and media studies, philosophy, art history and German literature. Her curatorial practice focuses on sonic experiments and dissident musical languages. Her research approach revolves around concepts of post-fundamental (sonic) communities and a politics of aesthetics.

Strelka founded the concert series Struma+Iodine in 2012. Since 2015 she is the artistic director and organizer of Unsafe+Sounds Festival. She teaches at the University of Applied Sciences in Salzburg and irregularly as guest lecturer at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. She is curating Klangraum Krems Minoritenkirche, and is part of the Elevate Festival's team of curators in Graz.