Deaf Anthropologist is the project of Gaetano Rago, a Hamburg-based sound artist with a background in interdisciplinary anthropology. With a lifelong condition of sensorineural hearing loss, Rago explores how auditory perception shapes reality, and his work frequently centers on auditory pareidolia, the tension between familiarity and estrangement, and the dynamics of immersion and dispersion. He has collaborated with dancers, designers, and installation artists in a range of contexts.