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  • David Cope, Godfather of A.I. Music, Is Dead at 83

    David Cope, Godfather of A.I. Music, Is Dead at 83

    David Cope, a beloved former professor of Music at UC Santa Cruz, passed away recently. Cope is known for the early use of A.I. used to generate code that could create music which mimicked the stylings of classical musicians like Mozarts. Read Article

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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

We will not experience the full power of the arts unless access to the means of representation is available to all. And we will not realize the full power of the arts if our iconographies and methodologies are dictated by the very few. So, I am driven to expand access so that authorship, critique and the shaping of what we know can be driven by all, and what we take for granted or natural can shift, and to keep our definition of the arts, fervently open.


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