Ali Momeni Visiting Artist Lecture

Ali Momeni Visiting Artist Lecture

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When:
October 28, 2020 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
2020-10-28T18:00:00-04:00
2020-10-28T19:30:00-04:00
Where:
Virtual on Zoom
Cost:
Free
Contact:
Jacquelynn Sullivan Gould
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Ali Momeni Visiting Artist Lecture @ Virtual on Zoom

This event is free and open to the public. Please register for this zoom webinar using this link: https://msu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_su7pcvH5Qbi7N_wXmstoYg

Ali Momeni was born in Isfahan (Iran) and emigrated to the United States as a child. His research interests include educational technologies, human-computer-interaction for performative applications of robotics, playful urban interventions, interactive projection performance, machine learning for artists and designers, interactive tools for storytelling and experiential learning, mobile and hybrid musical instruments, and the intersection of sound, music, and health. Momeni is currently a Visiting Scholar at the University of California Berkley in the Center for New Music and UAudio Technologies. He has previously been a Visiting Professor of Practice at Brown University in the Brown Arts Initiative & Brown Data Science Initiative. As well as an Associate Professor working in the School of Art, within Sculpture and Installation at Carnegie Mellon University.

He studied physics and music at Swarthmore College and completed his doctoral degree in music composition, improvisation, and performance with computers from the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies at UC Berkeley.  Between 2007 and 2011, Momeni was an assistant professor in the Department of Art at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, where he directed the Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art, and founded the urban projection collective called the MAW. Momeni next served as an associate professor in the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University where he founded and directed CMU ArtFab, a laboratory that’s focused on making complex creative workflows accessible to youth and non-technical folks. Momeni was also a founding faculty member in CMU’s IDEATE program and contributed to the Music Technology program.  In 2018, Ali joined Shield.ai as a Senior Principal Scientist focused on User Experience, and Brown University as a Professor of Practice within the Brown Arts Initiative and Data Science Initiative.  In addition to his work in the industry and his academic research and teaching, Ali is also co-founder of IRL Labs, an educational technology start-up focused on transforming everyday situations into interactive learning opportunities using everyday technologies.