Kim Alpert is a Media Artist and Creative Strategist based in Chicago, IL USA. Kim has over two decades of award winning projects across mediums for global agencies and brands. From an early multimedia production background, into directing and building enhanced programs for discipline convergence and emergent technologies, Kim has earned a reputation for fusing creative intelligence with foundational stewardship and design principles in ways that wow and deliver. Kim is currently working with nilor.studio to unlock the potential of orchestrated systems for clients worldwide.
Kim is also known for building and performing live improvisational video and media systems. Alpert works with a range of material from archival films, home videos, and analog synthesis along with surveillance cameras and recycled electronics creating singular experiences at each performance. Kim is an alumni resident of Chicago Art Department and Signal Culture – crafting a community and service based approach toward creative technology. Alpert’s practice often focuses on collaborations with musicians, movers, and other multi hyphenates that embrace spontaneity. Kim’s aim is to create meaningful experiences both in the process of creation as well as for each audience. Kim currently serves on the board of ESS.org.
Alpert’s work has been presented at The Art Institute of Chicago, Big Ears Festival, Sons d’hiver Jazz, Symphony Center Chicago , SOFA Expo, The Stony Island Arts Bank, The Walker Art Center, Roulette Intermedium, Bimhuis, and the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, as well as numerous alternative art spaces, raves, galleries, and festivals internationally. Alpert’s work has been featured with a range of artists from Mickalene Thomas, Claude Monet, and Mike Reed, to Ken Vandermark, claire rousay, Chris Corsano, Makaya McCraven, jaimie branch, Rob Mazurek, and Matt Lux.