Defying Categorization: DXARTS

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Speaker Details

Richard Karpen is Director of The Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS) at the University of Washington in Seattle. He has been the recipient of many awards, grants and prizes including those from the National Endowment for the Arts, the ASCAP Foundation, the Bourges Contest in France, and the Luigi Russolo Foundation in Italy. Fellowships and grants for work outside of the U.S. include a Fulbright to Italy, Stanford University’s Prix de Paris to work at IRCAM, and a Leverhulme Visiting Fellowship to the United Kingdom. He received his doctorate in composition from Stanford University, where he also worked at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). Karpen is acknowledged as one of the leading international figures in Computer Music for both his pioneering compositions and his work in developing computer applications for music composition and sound design.

Shawn Brixey is Associate Director of the University of Washington’s, newly established research center and PhD. program in Digital Arts and Experimental Media. Previously, he was founder of the Digital Media Program at the University of California Berkeley, and Director of their Center for Digital Art and New Media Research. A graduate of MIT’s, CAVS/Media Lab, Brixey has exhibited art and technology works internationally, including Documenta, the Deutscher Kunstlerbund, Karlsruhe, The MIT Museum, , The Chicago Art Institute, The 1998 Winter Olympics, and The first American Design and Architecture Triennial at the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum. He has received all levels of major grants and awards to support his research including: The Boxlight Corporation, The National Institute of Health, The Intel Corporation, Silicon Graphics, Apple Computer, IBM GmbH, The National Endowment for the Arts, and The Corporation for Public Broadcastingt. In 2003 he was honored with a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship for New Media. He lectures widely in the U.S and Europe on new and emerging media art forms.

Juan Pampin has been teaching at the University of Washington since 1999. He was appointed Assistant Professor of Music (Computer Music Composition) in 2002. Pampin received an MA in Composition from Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Lyon, France and a DMA in Composition from Stanford University. Juan Pampin’s research has focused on Spectral Modeling of sound. He has also undertaken research in the areas of Perceptual Audio Coding and Sound Spatialization. His compositions, including works for instrumental, digital, and mixed media, have been performed around the world by soloists and ensembles such as Arditi Quartet, Les Percussions de Strasbourg, and Sinfonia 21. Recent commissions include those from GRAME in France and La F‡brica in Argentina. He has been Artist in Residence at LIEM-CDMC in Madrid, and IMEB in Bourges, France. His signal processing research has been presented at major international conferences, particularly his Analysis Synthesis Transformation (ATS) software project. He has taught at Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and often lectures and gives master classes in a number of South American countries.

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Date:

May 13, 2004

Speakers:

Richard Karpen, Shawn Brixey, and Juan Pampin

Affiliation:

University of Washington