magfoto (Marcus Gordon, he/him) is a live coder, photographer, artist, Assistant Professor at OCAD University, and PhD candidate in Computational Arts at York University. His practice explores live coding performance, composition and improvisation with modular synthesis. He is a member of the Endemics live coding ensemble, and often moonlights in behind the scenes photography. He holds an MFA in Digital Futures from OCAD University where he learned holography and began his research on the subject of the transplane image. He continues his research with the nd::Studio Lab working on volumetric displays as visual music instruments. As Advisory Board Member with the Innovation Council of the Toronto Public Library, Marcus also advocates for digital literacy and creative coding in the arts and sciences. magfoto is based in Tkaronto/Toronto.
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