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Lance Putnam
Lance Putnam is a composer with an interest in generative computer art, audio-visual synthesis and digital sound synthesis. His work explores questions concerning the relationships between sound and graphics, symmetry in art and science, and motion as a spatiotemporal concept. He holds a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and an MA in Electronic Music and Sound Design and a Ph.D. in Media Arts and Technology from the Media Arts and Technology programme at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His dissertation ‘The harmonic pattern function: A mathematical model integrating synthesis of sound graphical patterns’, was selected for the Leonardo journal LABS 2016 top abstracts. He is currently investigating new approaches to procedural art as a research associate in Computing at Goldsmiths, University of London under the Digital Creativity Labs. Here he is developing the interactive virtual reality artwork Mutator VR along with collaborators William Latham, Stephen Todd and Peter Todd.