MRL Distinguished Speaker Series 30 June

Co-production and Co-creation: Creative practice in Social Inclusion 

Professor Atau Tanaka (Newcastle University)

Atau is Chair of Digital Media and Director of Culture Lab at Newcastle University. He bridges the fields of media art, experimental music, and research. He worked at IRCAM, was Artistic Ambassador for Apple France, a researcher at Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris, and also an Artistic Co-Director of STEIM in Amsterdam. Atau creates sensor-based musical instruments for performance, and is known for his work with biosignal interfaces. He seeks to harness collective musical creativity in mobile environments, seeking out the continued place of the artist in democratized digital forms.