Kylie combines play theory, vital materialism, and planetary philosophy in her research and writing. She serves as faculty in the art history department at Eastern Connecticut State University where she teaches ‘Issues in Contemporary Art,’ ‘American Art History,’ and ‘Art Since 1400.’ She is also a creative writing instructor at the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts where she was voted the ‘2024 Artist Instructor of the Year.’ Her dissertation Poetics of Play: Matters of Vertiginous Affinity is under the direction of trained anthropologist and philosopher Dejan Lukic. Kylie presented Nesting the World (or, Haptic Listening) at SECAC in Atlanta in 2024. In 2025, she will present Vertiginous Play: A Transformative Kinetics at the Beyond Humanism Conference in Paris and Envisioning the Macroalgal with Adrian Ghenie at the PACT Conference in Homer, Alaska. She lives with her husband James, and their two dogs and two cats in Middletown Connecticut.

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