"Much of my work involves puzzling over questions about human perception and knowledge, particularly as they relate to the creative activities of humans, animals, and machines. I will present four works that are representative of these questions: "Nearly Human (one billionth of a human brain)", "Fly Away (Not Going Very Far)", "foals", and "Molto Lento (with plant conductor)."

Douglas Irving Repetto is an artist and teacher. His work, including sculpture, installation, performance, recordings, and software is presented internationally. He is the founder of a number of art/community-oriented groups including dorkbot: people doing strange things with electricity, ArtBots: The Robot Talent Show, organism: making art with living systems, and the music-dsp mailing list and website. Douglas is Director of Research at the Columbia University Computer Music Center and lives in New York City with his wife, writer Amy Benson, and their young son Beals; two cute/bad cats, Pokey and Sneezy; and many plants.

More on Douglas and his work can be found at http://music.columbia.edu/~douglas.

Primary Sponsors of the ATC@UCSC lecture series are:

Office of the Dean of the Arts, UC Santa Cruz

Center for Information Technology in the Interest of Society (CITRIS)