Assistant Professor August Black is a hybrid practitioner of art, designÌýand engineering. He makes experimental spatial and acoustic situations, often by building his own technological artifacts and instruments in hardware and software.Ìý His past work focused on live networked audio, mixing FM radio with user input through online software. His current interests span the fields of the philosophy of technology, software studies, techno-politics, peer-to-peer networkingÌýand AI/machine learning.
In the past, he’s been a member of arts organizations such as the ORF Kunstradio and the Ars Electronica Futurelab, as well as a former member of the engineering team at Cycling ‘74, makers of Max/MSP.Ìý
He has shown works at festivals and venues such as Ars Electronica Festival, Dutch Electronic Arts Festival, Wave Farm, Transmediale, Pixelache, LA Freewaves, Piksel Festival, Polar Circuit and the Tasmanian Museum of Art, among others.
He earned a BFA at Syracuse University and was an NSF IGERT Fellow at UC Santa Barbara, where he completed an MS and PhD. He’s taught media and art classes at UC Santa Barbara, UniversityÌýof San FranciscoÌýand ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder.