Irene Moon (born Katja Seltmann) is an American entomologist, performance artist, musician, playwright, actor, and filmmaker.

She has published in the field of entomology as Katja Seltmann,[1] and is the current director of the Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration[2] at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

[7] From 2015 to 2020, she co-hosted with Yon Visell the weekly science and music radio program Unknown Territories, on KCSB 91.9 FM in Santa Barbara.

She began creating performances and films with the Melted Men, Deonna Mann and the Noisettes in Athens, Georgia during the late 1990s, and recorded her first album in 1996.

She has lectured at such diverse venues as the Knitting Factory in New York City, Sluggo's in Pensacola, Florida, the 2003 Entomological Society of America Annual Meeting and Exhibition, and at an abandoned cathedral in Amsterdam.

[5] Notable works include Scientifically Speaking with Irene Moon, a series of her lectures and music, From Field Station A (1997, re-pressed 2004),[3] and the soundtrack to the Thin Wax Line, an animated bee propaganda film.

[13] Moon co-hosted with Yon Visell from 2015 to 2020 a weekly radio show called Unknown Territories, an hour-long cultural arts program.

Their performances are marked by overstated art design, obscure, usually frightening subject matter, surrealism, medievalism, and occasionally, graphic violence.

[6] Auk Theatre's membership has included artist Matt Minter, musician and performance artist Sara O'Keefe, musician Jeremy Midkiff (as Jeramy Midkiff), Deek Hoi, Ellen Molle', Christopher Cprek, Trevor Tremaine and Robert Beatty of Hair Police, Darryl Cook, and Ben Fulton and John Ferguson of Ulysses.

These films mix factual information (usually entomological, but also historical, occult, and esoterica) with her own music, field-recorded insect sound samples, photomicrography, and animation.