About
June is an artist, musician, and researcher based in London, UK. She is currently a PhD student at the Augmented Instruments Lab, building a vocal instrument called Ephemerides and conducting research that integrates Crip Theory and Trans Studies into design.
June is active in the independent music scene in London, playing saxophone as softshadow and sometimes live code as trampbunny.
Selected Talks, Exhibitions, Performances
(2026) Voice, Technology, and Witchcraft, Peckham Digital, Festival of Creative Computing, London. https://www.tickettailor.com/events/peckhamdigital/2419494
(2026) Courtney Reed, June Kuhn, Byuka Makodru, Adam Schmidt. crossing technologically-enforced boundaries with séance. Queer Ecology and the Supernatural, Loughborough University. https://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/ias/events/2026/september/queer-ecology-and-the-supernatural/
(2026) Musical Dildos? Reframing a vocal instrument as a prosthetic sex organ. Bodies in Digital Transition, 2nd Edition, King's College London. https://bio.site/BDT_2026
(2025) June Kuhn, Nicole Robson, Brittney Allen, and Andrew McPherson. Entangled Listening: Exploring Relational and Diverse Listening Practices for DMI Design. Workshop at the New Interfaces for Musical Expression
(2024) Press Conference [Digital Installation and Web Art] Chaos & Hope, Hypha Studios, Group Exhibition, London UK
(2023) Ephemerides [Concert Performance] A-Side | B-Side, Goldsmiths University of London Computational Arts Staff & Residents Pop-Up Exhibition, London UK
(2023) trampbunny [Live Coding Performance] Live Coding Spatial Sound, IKLECTIK Art Lab, London, UK.
(2023) Goldsmiths Computational Arts Alumnae Residency [Artist Residency]. Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.
Publications
Kuhn, J., Makodru, B., REED, C. N., & Schmidt, A. (2026). Connecting to Ground: A Séance in the Wick Woodlands. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, 12–18. https://www.courtneynreed.com/assets/pdf/Kuhn_NIME2026_ConnectingGround.pdf
Kuhn, J., & McPherson, A. (2026). Ephemerides: A Microtonal Feedback Instrument Based on Transgender Voice Training Technique. Proceedings of the 2026 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. London, UK. https://andrewmcpherson.org/instrumentslab-data/data/andrew/kuhn_nime2026.pdf
Kuhn, J. (2024). Allears: Screenreader-Focused Immersive Websites. Computer-Human Interaction and Music Network, The Open University. https://doi.org/10.21954/OU.RO.00104039