Caleb Kelly is an academic, event director and curator working in the area of the sound arts.

In 2009 he published his first book, entitled Cracked Media: The Sound of Malfunction, through MIT Press. He has also edited Sound (MIT Press and Whitechapel Gallery in London), part of the Documents of Contemporary Art series. Kelly second book entitled, Gallery Sound will be published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2017.

Kelly is a curator whose exhibitions deal with strategies for the display of contemporary art that is filled with sound. Mostly recently he co-curated a large exhibition entitled Sound Full: Sound in Contemporary Australian and New Zealand Art, at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery and the City Gallery in Wellington, NZ in 2013/2014. 

Kelly's research interests are focused in the sound arts, contemporary art, media arts and art theory. His research has led to a rethinking of how art is listened to, historically and in contemporary practice. Kelly coordinates the research group Sound, Energies and Environments (http://see.unsw.edu.au/)

In 2015 Kelly was the Edgard Varèse Guest Professor at the Technische Universität Berlin.