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Philippe Pasquier
Full Professor · Simon Fraser University
Vancouver, British Columbia
Philippe Pasquier is a scientific researcher, multidisciplinary media artist, composer, performer, educator, and a community builder. He is the director of the Metacreation Lab for Creative AI, and a Professor at Simon Fraser University's School for Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT), in Vancouver (Canada). There, he is pursuing a multidisciplinary research-creation program focused on generative systems and applied AI for creative tasks, computer-assisted creativity, and co-creative systems. Along with the Metacreation Lab fellows, Philippe has co-authored over 250 peer-reviewed contributions presented in the most rigorous scientific venues, and honored with 9 best paper awards. His MOOC class on Generative Art and Computational Creativity on the Kadenze platform is serving thousands. The Metacreation Lab artistic work has been shown in prominent venues on six continents, including at Ars Electronica, IRCAM, ZKM, Centre Pompidou, Eastern Block, Earzoom festival, several ISEA editions, Mutek Festival, Sydney Biennale, Vooruit, ICST, etc. The Lab's projects are also finding industrial applications and its music AI algorithms have reached millions through open source release of tools, code, datasets, and collaborations with the software industry (e.g., Steinberg, Teenage Engineering, Elias, Microsoft, Huawei, …).
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