Maile Colbert is an intermedia artist, researcher, and educator with a focus on time-based media. She is currently a PhD Research Fellow in Artistic Studies with a concentration on Sound Studies, cinematic sound design, and its relationship with soundscape ecology at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, through the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, and a visiting lecturer at the Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto. Her current practice and research project is titled, Wayback Sound Machine: Sound through time, space, and place (http://www.mailecolbert.com/proj-wayback.html), and asks what we might gather from sounding the past. She is a collaborator with the art organization Binaural (www.binauralmedia.org), a member of CineLab, IFILNOVA's research lab for cinema and philosophy (www.fcsh.unl.pt), and is an editor and author at Sonic Field (http://sonicfield.org/author/mailecolbert/). She has exhibited, screened, and performed globally.