Thought Universe

Dr. Mark Pilkington is a composer and performer of electroacoustic music. His practice encapsulates sound and image as a means to extend spatial imaginings between real and virtual space. The coupling of images and sounds within audiovisual media is applied to acousmatic music composition, site-specific installation, and screen-based works. Forging the immaterial and creative labor through a network of interwoven and augmented territories, his work increasingly queries the way operations carry great critical and creative potential. Seeking new modes of critical engagement that incorporate multiple narratives through media informs the direction of his pedagogy. His theoretical research focuses on the relationship between artistic genres and their respective aesthetic theories with reference to electroacoustic music, audio-visual, sound design, and film. His audio-visual works have been performed, exhibited, and screened at ICMC, ARS Electronica, Synchresis, Turing 100, MANTIS festival, and the Open Circuit Festival.