Dr. Miles Thorogood is the SPIRAL Principal Researcher and audio engineer conducting research in the practice and theory of performance and sound arts. His research seeks to identify formal models of creativity as it is by investigating aspects of human perception and design process in order to encode creative structures for computer-assisted technologies in art-making environments.
PhD student and SPIRAL Lab Technician. Christopher Anderson is a multi-disciplinary musician and artist investigating alternative approaches to compositional and performance models using generative and computationally assistive systems. His recent compositions for electronics and trombone explore embedded generative processes in live performance and improvisational systems.
Craig Carpenter is a Master’s candidate in the Digital Humanities theme of the at the University of British Columbia Okanagan. His thesis takes the form of an interactive digital edition prototype of the Theytus Books titled Kʷu sqilxʷ/ We are the People and explores the potential role of Automatic Speech Recognition systems in the field of Indigenous Language Revitalization.
Renaud Bougueng T. is a Ph.D. student at the School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University. His research interests are in the fields of computational creativity, artificial intelligence and design research. In particular, he focuses on generative systems and algorithms for music, and interaction software design for musical creativity. He is a software engineer by trade, a music producer, designer and artist.
Dr. Philippe Pasquier is a professor in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology of Simon Fraser University. In his artistic practice, focused primarily on sonic arts, he is interested in studying and exploiting the various relationships and synergies between art, science and technology. He has been acting as a performer, director, composer, musician, producer and educator in many different contexts.
Bethany is an undergradute student at UBCO completing her Bachelor's of Media Studies with a minor in Visual Arts. She has a love for design and technology and is using her degree to persue her artistic passions in several mediums. She has made the Dean's list for academic achievement in every year of her full-time study and has worked as a TA for the Introduction to Digital Media class. She has contributed on multiple projects for UBCO as a website designer including Audio Metaphor and Waterways.
Joshua Kranabetter is a Master's student at the University of British Columbia's Okanagan campus. He is interested studying in generative sound design and music creation through machine learning and artificial intelligence. In the future, he would like to explore novel applications of sound in film, video games, and music.
Dr. Aleksandra Dulic is an artist-scholar working at the intersections of interactive multimedia installation and live performance with research foci in cross-cultural media performance, interactive animation and computational poetics. She has received a number of awards for her short animated films and interactive media works. Her work is widely presented in exhibitions, festivals, conferences and television broadcasts across Europe, Asia and North America.
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