About the Reviewers
João Martinho Moura is a researcher and media artist born in Portugal. His interests lie in digital art, intelligent interfaces, digital music, and computational aesthetics. He was invited as a professor at the Master Program in Technology and Digital Arts at the University of Minho, Portugal, teaching Programming for Digital Arts.
In 2013, he received the National Multimedia Award-Art & Culture from the APMP Multimedia Association in Portugal.
He has presented his work and research in a variety of conferences related to arts and technology, including:
- The International Festival for the Post-Digital Creation Culture OFFF (2008)
- World Congress on Communication and Arts (2010)
- SHiFT—Social and Human Ideas for Technology (2009)
- International Symposium on Computational Aesthetics in Graphics, Visualization, and Imaging CAe (2008)
- ARTECH (2008)
- ARTECH (2010)
- Computer Interaction (2009)
- ZON Digital Games (2007)
- International Creative Arts Fair (2008)
- ZON Multimédia Premium (2008)
- Le Corps Numérique-entre Culturel Saint-Exupéry (2011)
- Semibreve Award (2012)
- TEI International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (2011)
- Guimarães European Capital of Culture 2012
- Bodycontrolled Series LEAP—Lab for Electronic Arts and Performance Berlin (2012)
- Future Places (2012)
- The Ars Electronica Animation Festival (2012)
- SLSA Conference-Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (2013), xCoAx—Computation Communication Aesthetics and X (2013)
His work has been presented in a variety of places in Portugal, Italy, USA, Brazil, UK, France, Hong Kong, Belgium, Germany, Israel, Spain, and Austria.
He is a researcher at engageLab, a laboratory at the intersection of arts and technology, established by two research centers at University of Minho, the Centre for Communication and Society Studies and the Centre Algoritmi.
Joshua Parmenter is a composer and performer of contemporary music with a focus on interactive live electronics. His works have been performed throughout America and Europe. Over the past decade, he has also been one of the developers in the open-source SuperCollider project. He also contributed to the SuperCollider Book available from MIT Press.
Phil Thomson is a Vancouver-based listener, composer, and writer/editor. His works have been heard in concerts and broadcasts in Canada, US, and abroad. His works for dance routines have been integrated with performances by choreographers, such as Jennifer Clarke Arora, James Gnam, and Sara Coffin. His writings have been published online by the Canadian Electroacoustic Community and in print by the Cambridge University Press.