University of California, Santa Barbara

Graduate Student, Media Arts and Technology

PhD Candidate

Thesis Title: Composing Artificial Natures

About

Graham Wakefield is currently exploring the creation of music and art through the computational embodiment of creative becoming. This work expands upon his musical practice to re-asses computational composition from its natural grain towards the generation of open-ended environments for exploratory discovery, engaging with enduring questions of creativity, emergence and experience. It is informed by process philosophies emphasizing continuation over closure and integrates bio-inspired computation and run-time code generation. He is a Ph.D. candidate of Media Arts and Technology at the University of California Santa Barbara USA and graduated with a Master in Composition from Goldsmiths College, University of London UK and a BA in Philosophy from the University of Warwick UK. He is currently employed as a researcher for the AlloSphere (a multi-user spherical immersive instrument in the California Nano-Systems Institute) producing interactive environments for art-science research and co-developing an open-source multimedia framework (LuaAV). He is a software developer for Cycling '74 (Max/MSP) and lecturer at the Southern California Institute for Architecture (SCI-Arc). His works and publications have been performed, exhibited and presented at international events including SIGGRAPH, ICMC and ISEA.

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