Ex Machina Symposium

Join us for an academic panel on music and technology in the 21st century.

EX MACHINA is an interdisciplinary and multimedia project exploring the complex connections and relationship between technology and humanity through visual art and music. Evolving technology has been changing our lives, including how we experience arts and music. The title, Ex Machina, or From the Machine, reflects on humanity’s creativity and struggle of identity in this fast changing world. As a starting point, the piano is a musical machine with which I create sound stories to evoke ideas and emotions. In this project, we will explore the machine’s multifaceted meanings artistically, musically, and philosophically. -Dr. Clara Yang

Dr. Mark Katz (chair of the academic panel, Department of Music)
Dr. Stan Ahalt (Dean of the School of Data Science and Society)
Dr. Andrea Bohlman (Department of Music)
Dr. Anna Gatdula (Department of Music)
Dr. Hongbin Gu (Department of Psychiatry)
Dr. Thomas Hofweber (Department of Philosophy)
Destiny Meadows (Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Music)
Daniel Jones (former UNC Kenan Music Scholar, Staff Software Engineer at Google)