R. Luke DuBois creates music, art, software, and circuits, not necessarily in that order.
His artwork explores the temporal, verbal, and visual structures of cultural and personal ephemera, using data-driven techniques to investigate time, memory, identity, and the meaning of portraiture in the United States in the 21st Century.
Stemming from his investigations of “time-lapse phonography,” DuBois’ work is a sonic and encyclopedic relative to time-lapse photography. Just as a long camera exposure fuses motion into a single image, his projects reveal the average sonority, visual language, and vocabulary in music, film, text, or cultural information. Exhibitions of his work include: the Insitut Valencià d’Art Modern, Spain; Haus der elektronischen Künste, Switzerland; 2008 Democratic National Convention, Denver; Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis; San Jose Museum of Art; National Constitution Center, Philadelphia; Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art; Daelim Contemporary Art Museum, Seoul; the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester; 2007 Sundance Film Festival; the Sydney Film Festival; SITE Santa Fe; Orange County Museum of Art; the Beall Center for Art & Technology; the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art; the Smithsonian American Art Museum; the National Portrait Gallery; the Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; PROSPECT.2 New Orleans; the 2018 London Design Biennale; and the Aspen Institute. DuBois' work and writing has appeared in print and online in the New York Times, National Geographic, and Esquire Magazine, and he was an invited speaker at the 2016 TED Conference. A major survey of his work, NOW, received its premiere at the Ringling Museum of Art in 2014, with a catalogue published by Scala Art & Heritage Publishers.
DuBois holds a doctorate in music composition from Columbia University, and has lectured and taught worldwide on interactive sound and video performance. He has collaborated on interactive performance, installation, and music production work with many artists and organizations as a software and electronics designer, including: Toni Dove, Todd Reynolds, Bora Yoon, Michael Joaquin Grey, Matthew Ritchie, Elliott Sharp, Michael Gordon, Nina C. Young, Maya Lin, LEMUR, the Princeton Laptop Orchestra, and Bang on a Can. He has performed his audiovisual and composition work at Lincoln Center, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Carnegie Hall, the Kitchen, the Stone, Roulette, and many other venues nationally and internationally.
An active visual and musical collaborator, DuBois is the co-author of Jitter, a software suite within Max/MSP for the real-time manipulation of matrix data developed by San Francisco-based software company Cycling'74. He appears on nearly twenty-five albums both individually and as part of the avant-garde electronic group The Freight Elevator Quartet. He has performed regularly with experimental musicians worldwide, including Lesley Flanigan (as Bioluminescence), and Zach Layton and Matthew Ostrowski (as Fair Use). He performs regularly using both digital and analog instruments, including Serge Modular synthesizers.
DuBois has lived for the last thirty-one years in New York City. He is the co-chair of the department of Technology, Culture, and Society and research director of the programs in Integrated Design & Media at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, and a founding co-director of the NYU Ability Project. His research focuses on integrative systems for media and technology equity, ranging from open source software projects for signal processing and speech to telepresent communication systems for motion capture to citizen science for noise pollution to design for disability. His work has received support from the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Endowment for the Arts. He is on the Board of Directors of the ISSUE Project Room, Eyebeam, and Tech Kids Unlimited. His records are available on Caipirinha/Sire, Liquid Sky, C74, modulisme, and Cantaloupe Music. His artwork is represented by bitforms gallery in New York City.
R. Luke DuBois
Associate Professor of Integrated Design & Media
Tandon School of Engineering
New York University
Co-chair, Department of Technology, Culture, & Society (TCS)
Co-director, Integrated Design & Media (IDM)
Faculty director, NYU Tandon @ The Yard
Founding co-director, NYU Ability Project
address:
370 Jay Street, Room 353
Brooklyn, NY / 11201 / USA
tel: +1-646-997-0719 / fax: +1-718-260-3136
e-mail: dubois_at_nyu_dot_edu
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