| Paul DeMarinis | Paul DeMarinis has been working as an electronic composer since 1971 and has created numerous performance works, sound and computer installations and interactive electronic inventions. He has taught computer, video and audio art at Mills College, Wesleyan University, San Francisco State University and the New York State College of Ceramics, and has been a video game designer for Atari Inc. and Scholastic Software. He has performed internationally at The Kitchen, the Festival d’Automne á Paris, NHK Television in Tokyo, Het Apollohuis in Holland and at New Music America. |
| Patricia Cadavid | Patricia Cadavid is an immigrant, artist, and researcher born in Colombia. Her work looks at the relationships and effects of coloniality through new media and sound. She is informed by her migratory experience, and by decolonial and anti-colonial thinking. Her recent research has focused on the amplification of the memory contained in ancestral interfaces from Abya Yala in the Andes that were taken away by colonization. Cadavid reuses these interfaces in new artistic processes related to video, sound interfaces, tangible live coding, and multimedia performance. |
| Carol Parkinson | Carol Parkinson is the Executive Director of Harvestworks, the digital media arts center located in New York City. Since 1987, her focus has been on the development of experimental artworks that explore sound, data and other emerging technologies. Parkinson’s professional services include panel participation at the New York Foundation for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Parkinson is the Executive Producer of the New York Electronic Art Festival, a series of workshops, concert performances and exhibitions centered on art and technology. Parkinson is a founding member of TELLUS, the Audio Cassette Magazine, a cassette –based magazine of experimental music and sound art published between 1982 – 1996. Parkinson’s educational background includes the University of Wisconsin at Madison, Skidmore College and the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program in New York City. |
| Sergey Kasich | Sergey Kasich is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher and curator with a focus in sound arts, technological media and music. Graduated as a Psychology major in 2006 from Lomonosov’s MSU, he was involved in postgraduate research in behavioral genetics and psychodiagnostics until 2010, while at the same time being a permanent resident at the studio for electronic music Theremin Center of Moscow State Conservatory. For 2012-2013 he joined an international research program at STRELKA institute for media, architecture and design to study urban data collection and processing and D.I.Y. and “hacker\maker” culture around the world. In 2011 he initiated SoundArtist.ru ( a.k.a. SA)) ) – the Russian sound arts community. And later founded Moscow Sound Art Gallery SA))_gallery and Moscow Sound Art Studio SA))_studio. He has lectured in Rodchenko’s Art School on topic of technologic basics of interactive arts from 2011 until 2018. Sergey’s artistic practice is focused on interactive and generative sound and multimedia installations, performances and mixed media projects. He also worked as a composer and sound-producer across a broad spectrum of arts (from theatrical productions and experimental performances to pop-music). Sergey is interested in interconnections between technological, social, architectural, biological and other infrastructures and phenomena. Currently a PHD candidate in Computer Music at UC San Diego. |
| David Rothenberg | Musician and philosopher David Rothenberg wrote Why Birds Sing, Bug Music, Survival of the Beautiful and many other books, published in at least eleven languages. He has more than forty recordings out, including One Dark Night I Left My Silent House which came out on ECM, and most recently In the Wake of Memories and Faultlines. He has performed or recorded with Pauline Oliveros, Peter Gabriel, Ray Phiri, Suzanne Vega, Scanner, Elliott Sharp, Iva Bittová, and the Karnataka College of Percussion. Secret Sounds of Ponds is his latest book. Nightingales In Berlin is his latest film. Rothenberg is Distinguished Professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. |
| Sholeh Asgary | Sholeh Asgary (b. Iran) engages performance, interdisciplinary forms, and collective processes to investigate, memorialize, and express the complexities of joy and survival inherent in diasporic and refugee experiences. Her work challenges colonial assumptions about what is heard, proposing new futures through sound. Featured in Art in America’s 2022 “New Talent Issue,” Asgary was a Bay Area Now 9 artist at YBCA, a 2023 Artadia Finalist, and part of the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival (2024). She is exhibited in PST-Getty’s Atmosphere of Sound and supported by institutions such as PICA, MASS MoCA, and Headlands. Asgary is faculty at UC Berkeley. |
| ICIT Collective | Our performance collective consists of students from the PhD program in Integrated Composition, Improvisation, and Technology at the University of California, Irvine. For Sound + Science 3.0, we present a series of emerging projects, each of which challenges performers to negotiate differing degrees of fixity and openness. These technologically-mediated performances problematise neat distinctions between human and nonhuman performing entities. Designing and experimenting with the technological apparatus becomes an integral part of composing the music; improvising in real-time with the systems’ constraints further complicates the temporalities of planning and performance. |
| Roxanne Harris | Roxanne Harris is an artist, educator, curator, and practitioner based in New York City. She holds a B.A. in Computer Science and Music from Yale University, where she specialized in creative embedded systems and human-computer interaction, exploring programming as a medium for artistic expression. As an active member of Livecode.NYC, she organizes shows, facilitates workshops, and performs live-coded audiovisual works using Sonic Pi and Max/MSP/Jitter as performance tools. By embracing programming as a means of artistic expression, she finds new ways to engage with the world, deconstructing and reconstructing existing structures as she goes. |
| Adam Stieg | Adam Stieg is a Research Scientist and Associate Director of CNSI responsible for oversight of the Institute’s six Technology Centers – a collection of open-access user facilities that foster innovation across disciplines, facilitate university collaborations with industry, and aid in the rapid commercialization of discoveries by supporting researchers from academia and industry. Dr. Stieg earned his B.S. in Chemistry from Drew University and his Ph.D. in Inorganic/Physical Chemistry from UCLA. |
| Andrew Pelling | Andrew is a trailblazing scientist and seasoned operator, passionate about bringing groundbreaking ideas to life in an ever-evolving world. Andrew excels at building imaginative teams and companies that leverage scientific advances to unlock new opportunities. |
| JoAnn Kuchera-Morin | Dr. JoAnn Kuchera-Morin is a composer, Professor of Media Arts and Technology and Music, and a researcher in multi-modal media systems, content and facilities design. She created, built, and designed the Center for Research in Electronic Art Technology and is the Center Director since its inception in 1986. Her years of experience in digital media research led to the creation of a multi-million dollar sponsored research program for the University of California, the Digital Media Innovation Program. She was Chief Scientist of the Program from 1998 to 2003. In 2000 she began the creation, design, and development of a Digital Media Center within the California Nanosystems Institute. The culmination of her design is the Allosphere Research Laboratory, a three-story metal sphere inside an echo-free cube, designed for immersive, interactive scientific and artistic investigation of multi-dimensional data sets. |
| Rachel Mayeri | Rachel Mayeri is a Los Angeles-based artist working at the intersection of art and science. Her videos, installations, and writing projects explore topics ranging from the history of special effects to the human animal. Commissioned by Arts Catalyst and receiving a major award from The Wellcome Trust, she created a film expressly for chimpanzees: “Primate Cinema: Apes as Family,” which subsequently showed at Sundance, Berlinale, and Ars Electronica. As a professor at Harvey Mudd College, she teaches courses such as Animal Media Studies and Art & Biology. |
| Seth Cluett | Seth Cluett is an artist and composer whose work ranges from photography and drawing to video, sound installation, concert music, and critical writing. His “subtle…seductive, immersive” (Artforum) work has been characterized as “rigorously focused and full of detail” (e/i) and “dramatic, powerful, and at one with nature” (The Wire). Exploring the territory between the senses, Cluett’s works are marked by a detailed attention to perception and to the role of sound in the creation of a sense of place, the workings of memory, and the experience of time. His research interests and critical writings investigate embodied cognition, sound in virtual and augmented reality, the media history of the loudspeaker, the history and documentation of sound in art practice, and architectural acoustics. |
| Patrick Shiroshi | Patrick Shiroishi is a Japanese-American multi-instrumentalist, composer & poet based in Los Angeles who is perhaps best known for his extensive & incredibly intense work with the saxophone. Over the last decade he has established himself as one of the premier improvising musicians in Los Angeles, playing solo and in numerous collaborative projects. He has presented work and performed at the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Natural History Museum, the Broad Museum, commissioned by the LA Philharmonic and has toured around the world in various solo and band configurations including The Armed & contemporary classical ensemble Wild Up. He has a poem included in a collection of Japanese American poets Gate of Memory published by Haymarket Books. |
| Jazzy Romero | Jazmin Romero is an interdisciplinary artist from Los Angeles, California. Her work explores how memory is embodied through performance, video, sound, and sculpture. Romero’s practice is concerned with how experimentation, improvisation, and collectivity allow for alternative forms of storytelling. She engages with the relationship between musical gesture and physical form to produce scores, assemblages, and compositions. She is also a member of various performance and music production collectives, such as COQUETA. |
| Diana Ayton | Diana Ayton-Shenker is CEO, Leonardo/ISAST (International Society of Arts, Science, Technology); Executive Director, ASU-Leonardo Initiative; and ASU Professor of Practice jointly appointed at The School for the Future of Innovation in Society; and at The School of Arts, Media, & Engineering. Diana has published four books, including, A New Global Agenda(link is external), and Tumbalalaika: A Collection of Poems; and produced New Babel,(link is external) a 10-story tall A.R. public art installation (Union Square Park, NYC) in collaboration with artist William T. Ayton, her partner and husband of 30 years, and the XR Center of The New School. As Fast Forward Fund founder, and founding CEO of Global Momenta, she was honored by President Bill Clinton, named among “25 Leading Women Changing the World” (Good Business NY), and featured among “31 Inspiring Women in Nonprofit Management” (UNC). Diana speaks four languages and holds an LLM (International Human Rights Law, University of Essex Law School), and a BA with Honors (International Relations, University of Pennsylvania). She was the inaugural Nazarian Social Innovator in Residence at Wharton, the Global Catalyst Senior Fellow at The New School, Senior Fellow in Venture Philanthropy at Bard College, and has held senior positions with Human Rights Watch, P.E.N., Mercy Corps, and the United Nations. Diana has taught at The New School, Bard College, the American University of Paris, and Hunter College of the CUNY, where she directed the first undergraduate program of Human Rights in the U.S. She has lectured at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Penn, and many international gatherings. Together, she and Ayton co-parent three fantastic, astonishingly full-grown humans. |
