Project ECAT investigators and contributors include:
Timothy Weaver, Professor of Emergent Digital Practices (EDP), University of Denver
Timothy Weaver is a new media artist, life scientist and bioenvironmental engineer whose concerted objective is to contribute to the restoration of ecological memory through a process of speculative inquiry along the art | science interface. His recent interactive installation, live cinema, video and sonic projects have been featured at FILE Hipersonica (Brazil), Transmediale (Berlin), New Forms Festival (Vancouver), Subtle Technologies (Toronto), Korean Experimental Art Festival, Museum of Modern Art (Cuenca, Ecuador), the Seattle Center, the Denver Art Museum, Boston CyberArts, SIGGRAPH, the New York Digital Salon & the National Institutes of Health (Washington, DC).
Weaver has conducted visiting artist projects at Espacio Fundación Telefónica (Lima), Santa Fe Institute, the University of Gavle Creative Media Lab (Sweden), KTH/Swedish Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm), & University of New Mexico’s Art & Ecology Program.
Weaver is Professor of Emergent Digital Practices specializing in biomedia, sustainable design and emerging forms of interactive expression at the University of Denver.
Dr. Jonathan Berger, Professor, Music, Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), Stanford University
Jonathan Berger is a composer and researcher whose compositions include chamber, symphonic, vocal, and electroacoustic music, and opera. Berger’s research explores how and why humans persistently, even obsessively engage with music.
Berger is the Denning Family Provostial Professor in Music at Stanford University, where he teaches composition, music theory, and cognition at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). He was the founding co-director of the Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts (SICA, now the Stanford Arts Institute) and founding director of Yale University’s Center for Studies in Music Technology.
In 2016 Dr. Berger was the recipient of both a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Rome Prize for his innovative creative vision and groundbreaking compositions.
Berger’s next projects, which will comprise his Guggenheim Fellowship, include a cantata based upon folk tales as told by refugees, migrants, and the homeless, and a work based upon acoustic models that approximate and recreate the sounds of extinct species and lost habitats.
Ayala Berger, PhD student, Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, University of California, Riverside
Ayala Berger is a PhD graduate student Dean’s Distinguished fellow at University of California Riverside studying sensory perception, behavioral ecology, and ecoacoustics. Her research centers on the interplay between sound, the environment, and behavior. She is interested in how anthropogenic change affects acoustic communication of animals. Ayala is advised by Dr. Christopher Clark and is a member of his animal aeroacoustics lab where she researches hummingbird hearing, mate preference, and the acoustics of dive sounds and shuttle displays. Ayala is interested in making science accessible to the public and presenting anthropogenic change and scientific ideas in different mediums and forms. Ayala has a B.A. in Cello performance and a B.S. in Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology from University of California Davis.
Elliot Canfield-Dafilou, PhD. student, Music, Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), Stanford University
Elliot Canfield-Dafilou is a PhD candidate at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) at Stanford University where he is a sound engineer, composer, and researcher. Elliot holds degrees in music theory and music technology from Penn State University as well as a degree in music, science, and technology from CCRMA. While at Penn State, he wrote his master’s thesis on spatialization in the music of Iannis Xenakis. He is fascinated by strange and interesting sounds and dabbles in all forms of audio.
Jeremy Billauer, MA student, Emergent Digital Practices (EDP), University of Denver
Jeremy Billauer is a MFA graduate student in the University of Denver Emergent Digital Practices program. Originally from Marina del Rey, CA, Jeremy attended CU Boulder for his undergraduate degree where he studied Operations and Systems Management along with Technology, Arts, and Media. He has an ongoing passion for technology and nature, and intends to bring his knowledge from various educational and professional backgrounds into his studies and research. Jeremy is interested in incorporating virtual reality, wearable computing and 3D printing into projectECAT to provide additional mediums with which people can interact with and collect data.