Save the date! 2023 DMC Fair - April 18th

Joint event with the Music Program

Date/Time: Tuesday, 4/18/23, 5-7 pm

Location: Ramapo College, Trustees Pavilion

Join us for the Data, Mathematical, and Computational Sciences (DMC) Fair on April 18th, 2023. This year’s DMC Fair is a joint event with Ramapo’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Music Technology program. This event will feature keynote speaker Dr. R. Luke DuBois, Associate Professor and Director of Research, Integrated Design & Media at New York University. Here is a link to Dr. DuBois’ TED talk, which weaves information from a multitude of sources into art and music exploring the tensions between algorithms, portraiture, and temporal space.

Description of Talk: For the last twenty-five years Dr. DuBois has been making music and art that comment on the intersection of 21st century culture and our obsession with the quantification of our world. These projects sit somewhere in between portraiture and composition, in that they leverage media, information, algorithms, and emotion to invoke the big picture narratives behind this century of data.

About the Speaker: R. Luke DuBois is a composer, artist, performer, designer, and software engineer who explores the
temporal, verbal, and visual structures of cultural and personal ephemera. He holds a doctorate in music
composition from Columbia University, and is the co-author of Jitter, a software suite for the real-time
manipulation of matrix data developed by San Francisco-based software company Cycling’74; he is a
regular contributor to other toolkits for creative coding, including p5.js and RTCmix. He is the research
director of the IDM program at NYU Tandon, and was a founding co-director of the NYU Ability Project.
Luke’s research interests range from inclusive design to cyber-physical systems to telepresent
collaboration. He works across many disciplines and has collaborated with NYU faculty in departments
ranging from Computer Science to Occupational Therapy, and teaches in a triple appointment between
IDM at NYU Tandon and the programs in Music Technology at NYU Steinhardt and ITP/IMA at NYU Tisch.
He is currently a co-investigator on multiple NSF-funded projects, including SONYC, a multi-year
investigation around noise pollution in New York City; and the NYU Holodeck, a research platform for
investigating what happens when VR, motion capture, and telecommunication infrastructure reach the
level of everyday use. Finally, Luke designs, builds, and restores analog and hybrid analog/digital
modular synthesizers in the audio lab, making open-source designs for creative signal processing.

Following the keynote speech, attendees can view posters showcasing Ramapo students’ research projects in Data, Mathematical, Computational Sciences, and Creative Music Technology. Attendees will be able to network with Ramapo students and faculty as well as industry professionals. Awards will be given for the best posters.

This event was supported by a grant from the Ramapo College Foundation.

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