Keri Elmsly

Founder and Chief Curator

PACT

Speaker Biography

Keri Elmsly is a global curator and producer whose collaborative practice builds institutional programmes, cultural infrastructure, and the work of artists operating at planetary scale and world-building. In 2025 she founded PACT (Planetary Art Culture Technology), championing artists’ unique utility as engines for imagination, agency, and change.
Keri is Artistic Director at Large of Glass Castle Foundation, and recently served as Executive Director of Programming at ACMI (Australia’s Museum of Screen Culture) and Senior Vice President at Sphere Studios (Sphere, Las Vegas).
Grounded in her formative years with DIY underground collectives, she has consistently produced and curated ambitious, demanding works, including producing the first live drone orchestra with John Cale (Velvet Underground) and Liam Young at the Barbican in 2014.
Keri is a long term mentor at New Inc at the New Museum (New York), and with Serpentine Arts Technologies’ new Future Art Ecosystems R&D Fellowship (London).

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