soniDOME Project investigators and collaborators include:
Timothy Weaver, Professor, Emergent Digital Practices (EDP), University of Denver. Timothy is a new media artist, life scientist and bioenvironmental engineer whose concerted objective is to contribute to the restoration of ecological memory through a process of speculative inquiry along the art | science interface. His recent interactive installation, live cinema, video and sonic projects have been featured at FILE Hipersonica (Brazil), Transmediale (Berlin), New Forms Festival (Vancouver), Subtle Technologies (Toronto), Korean Experimental Art Festival, Museum of Modern Art (Cuenca, Ecuador), the Seattle Center, the Denver Art Museum, Boston CyberArts, SIGGRAPH, the New York Digital Salon & the National Institutes of Health (Washington, DC).
Weaver has conducted visiting artist projects at Espacio Fundación Telefónica (Lima), Santa Fe Institute, the University of Gavle Creative Media Lab (Sweden), KTH/Swedish Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm), & University of New Mexico’s Art & Ecology Program.
Weaver is Professor of Emergent Digital Practices specializing in biomedia, sustainable design and emerging forms of interactive expression at the University of Denver. more>>
Dr. Jody W. Deming, Karl M. Banse Endowed Professor, University of Washington.
Jody is an oceanographer who currently explores the limits of microbial life in the Arctic Ocean and its sea-ice cover, including how microbes adapt to the cold, and their ecological roles more broadly. At UW, she has directed the Marine Bioremediation Program, launched the Marine Molecular Biotechnology Laboratory (now the Center for Environmental Genomics), and helped establish the nation’s first graduate training program in Astrobiology. She served on the U.S. Polar Research Board during the International Polar Year from 2007–2009, chaired the International Arctic Polynya Program from 2000–2012, and has recently served on the U.S. Ocean Sciences Board and a Deepwater Horizon Committee for the National Research Council. She is currently Editor-in-Chief of the Ocean Science domain of the new open-access journal Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene. In recognition of her work, she has been elected to the American Academy of Microbiology and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Deming holds the Walters Endowed Professorship. more>>
Dr. Jonathan Berger, Professor, Music, Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), Stanford University. Jonathan Berger is a composer and researcher whose compositions include chamber, symphonic, vocal, and electroacoustic music, and opera. Berger’s research explores how and why humans persistently, even obsessively engage with music.
Berger is the Denning Family Provostial Professor in Music at Stanford University, where he teaches composition, music theory, and cognition at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). He was the founding co-director of the Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts (SICA, now the Stanford Arts Institute) and founding director of Yale University’s Center for Studies in Music Technology.
In 2016 Dr. Berger was the recipient of both a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Rome Prize for his innovative creative vision and groundbreaking compositions.
Berger’s next projects, which will comprise his Guggenheim Fellowship, include a cantata based upon folk tales as told by refugees, migrants, and the homeless, and a work based upon acoustic models that approximate and recreate the sounds of extinct species and lost habitats. more >>
Dr. Jennifer Biddle, Associate Professor, University of Delaware. Jennifer’s research group is focused on microorganisms in the environment, and understanding what they do and where they are. Environments they examine include local marine sediments, the deep biosphere and microbialites and examine microbial diversity at all levels, including bacteria, archaea and fungi. The Biddle Lab employs next generation, high throughput sequencing techniques and bioinformatics, cultivation and geochemistry techniques in dark biosphere studies. more>>
Zachary Cooper, PhD. Student, University of Washington. Zac is a Ph.D. student studying Biological Oceanography and Astrobiology at the University of Washington. His research focuses on understanding the effects of challenging environmental conditions, such as extreme cold, on microbial community structure and evolution. He has participated in expeditions to the coastal Arctic in Northern Alaska to sample microbial communities living in subfreezing, hypersaline brines. Such brines are found within sea ice that turns over annually or in permafrost-enclosed cryopegs that contain communities that have been semi-isolated and continuously kept below freezing temperatures for thousands of years. Using physical and geochemical measurements of the environment as well as community genomics, the diversity and evolution of these communities can be compared and understood. more>>