Miles Thorogood
Miles Thorogood is Assistant Professor at The Unvirsity of British
Columbia and director of the Sonic Production, Intelligence, Research, and Applications Lab. He seeks to identify formal models of
creativity by investigating aspects of human perception and the design
process to encode creative structures for computer-assisted technologies
in art-making environments.
Philippe Pasquier
Philippe 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.
Craig Carpenter
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. More than a decade
of experience as a working sound designer, he won a Sports Emmy for his
work with NBC as a production sound specialist during the 2010 Winter
Olympic Games. As a member of the UBC Okanagan
his expertise in sound design brings working industry knowledge to the
various state-of-the-art sound projects in generative machine learning
and creative audio engineering.
Renaud Bougueng
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.
Bethany Hiebert
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
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.
Jianyu Fan
Jianyu Fan is a Ph.D. candidate from Metacreation Lab, Simon Fraser
University. His research interests lie in the field of Affective
Computing, Machine Listening, Human-Computer Interaction, and
Computational Creativity. He has been a researcher, engineer, and artist
in many different contexts.
Arne Eigenfeldt
Arne is a composer of acoustic and electroacoustic music, and is
an active software designer. His music has been performed throughout
the world, and his research in intelligent music systems has been
published and presented in international conferences. He teaches music
and technology at SFU's School for the Contemporary Arts.