Artists

Rob Seward

Rob Seward's interests include the sublime, communication, and internal psychological exploration. He has lectured at the Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Chelsea Art Museum; and Location One, both in New York City. His work is widely exhibited in the US and Europe. He holds a master's from the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Before getting his master's, he worked at Columbia University in collaboration with composer Fred Lerdahl creating software based on the Generative Theory of Tonal Music. Rob lives and works in New York City.

Exhibitions and Screenings

2007 Liquid Room - Video Art & Architecture, Cultural Communication Centre
    of Klaipeda, Lithuania
    CVZ Contemporary, New York, NY
    Flesh, 3rd Ward, Brooklyn, NY
2006 CVZ Contemporary, New York, NY
    ATTITUDE, Bitola, Macedonia
    Pool Art Fair, New York, NY
    FRAME - International Dance-Video Festival, Porto, Portugal
    VideoChannel, Cologne, Germany
    Cologne OFF II, Cologne, Germany
    River's Edge Film Festival, Paducah, KY
    ITP Spring Show, New York University, New York, NY
    Tisch Plasma Display, New York University, New York, NY
    Scope Art Fair, Represented by Perpetual Art Machine, New York, NY
2005 ITP Floor Exhibition, New York University, New York, NY
    Ocularis, Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn, NY
    2005 Juried Show, Contemporary Artists Center, North Adams, MA
Jurors: Mark Dion and J. Morgan Puett
    TP Spring Show, New York University, New York, NY
2004 ITP Winter Show, New York University, New York, NY

Selected Bibliography

Phillip Torrone, "HOW TO - Build your own "True Random Number Generator," Make: blog, 6 October 2006 <http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/10/how_to_build_your_own_true_ran.ht ml>

José Manuel Gómez, "Construye tu propio generador de números aleatorios,"
Kriptópolis, 6 October 2006
< http://www.kriptopolis.org/construye-tu-propio-generador-de-numeros-aleatorios>

Megan Miller, "DIY ESP," Popular Science Blog, 24 July 2006
<http://popsci.typepad.com/popsci/2006/07/diy_esp.html>

Peter Pachal, "Consciousness Resonator: Finding Fate in Numbers," SCI FI Tech, 19
May 2006
<http://blog.scifi.com/tech/archives/consciousness_resonator_finding_fate_in_numbers.h tml>

Clive Thompson, "Can this Piece of Art Predict The Future?" Collision Detection, 16 May 2006
<http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2006/05/ever_heard_of_t.html>

Ami Kealoha, "ITP Spring Show 2006," Cool Hunting, 15 May 2006
<http://www.coolhunting.com/archives/2006/05/itp_spring_show_2.php>

Phillip Torrone, "Conscience Field Resonators," Make: blog, May 2006
<http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/05/conscience_field_resonators.html>

Regine Debatty, "Psychic Forces," We Make Money Not Art, 10 May 2006
<http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/008193.php>

Clive Thompson, "'Tag' - The Simplest Video Game in the World," Collision Detection, 12 May 2005
<http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2005/05/i_love_minimali.html>

Alec Wilkinson, "Incomprehensible," The New Yorker, Issue of 7 June 2004, p. 41

Lectures

Location One, New York, NY, 2006 - Consciousness Field Resonator

Chelsea Museum, New York, NY, 2005 - Generative Theory of Tonal Music Software

Location One, New York, NY, 2004 - Generative Theory of Tonal Music Software

Connecticut College, New London, CT, 2003 - "Cognitive Theory, Compositional
Models and Implementation of a Creation Station," paper presentation

IRCAM-Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, 2002 - "Compositional Imperatives for
Implementing an Audio Alignment Program in Max/MSP"

Publications

Izmirli, O., Seward, R and Zahler, N. "Melodic Pattern Anchoring for Score Following Using Score Analysis", Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC2003), October 1-4, 2003, Singapore.

Izmirli, O., Zahler, N., Seward, R., "Rewriting the Score: Score following in MAX/MSP and the Demands of Composers", Proceedings of the Ninth Biennial Symposium for Arts and Technology at Connecticut College, pp. 87-91, Feb. 27-March 1, 2003.

Lerdahl, F., Seward, R., Zahler, N., Izmirli, O., Bao, Y. and Baird, B. "Cognitive Music Theory, Compositional Models and Implementation of a Creation Station", Proceedings of the Ninth Biennial Symposium for Arts and Technology at Connecticut College, pp. 99-102, Feb. 27-March 1, 2003.

Izmirli, O., Seward, R and Zahler, N. "Compositional Imperatives for Implementing an audio Alignment Program in MAX/MSP," Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC2002), September 17-21, 2002, Gothenburg, Sweden

Professional Experience

2003-2006 Columbia University, New York, New York. Freelance Researcher.
    Developed Generative Theory of Tonal Music software with composer
    Fred Lerdahl.
2002-2003 Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut. Engineer. Hired by   Keck Foundation grant to develop experimental music software.
2001 Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. Intern (New Media Department).
2000 Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut. Teaching Assistant
(Computer Science).
2000 Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA. Web
Assistant.

Education

M.P.S. 2006 New Media Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP),
Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
B.A. 2002 CS, Music Connecticut College (magna cum laude)

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