Kenneth Newby

BA, MFA (Simon Fraser University), is a media artist and researcher whose practice explores the use of artist-designed software and media diffusion techniques to enable media performances and installations rich in aural and visual ideas. This practice includes works of participatory media performance and installation, infinite game design, electronic and acoustic music, software tools for composition of music and animation, as well as interdisciplinary collaborative art and research with artists in various disciplines including Canadian First Nations artists and other international intercultural projects. His writings on media art have been published in key journals such as the Journal of Media Practice and the Canadian Theatre Review. A book chapter on interaction research and design for museum experience was published in Designing Effective Communications: Creating Contexts for Clarity and Meaning. He has written for and presented at a variety of conferences including Practice as Research in Performance, Bristol; Computer Art Congress, Paris; Digital Arts & Culture, Melbourne; Consciousness Reframed: Qi and Complexity, Beijing; CeC & CaC, New Delhi; Interactive Futures, Victoria, Transnet, Vancouver; ISEA, Belfast; and Toward a Science of Consciousness, Hong Kong. Kenneth is faculty at the University of the Fraser Valley, Visual Arts Department, New Media and an Adjunct Professor in Creative Studies, Media Art at the University of British Columbia. He is regular visiting faculty for graduate seminars in Computational Poetics at the University of Arts in Belgrade, Interdisciplinary Post-graduate Program in Polymedia Arts and has presented workshops in Media Performance at the Indonesian National Academy of Arts (STSI) in Solo, Central Java. His past work includes interaction design for Electronic Arts in the research and creation of adaptive audio techniques, interactive audio, music, speech and immersive sound