Professor and Director of the School for the Contemporary Arts
Simon Fraser University
Vancouver, B.C.
martin_gotfrit [at] sfu [dot] ca

Martin Gotfrit is Professor in the Music Area of the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. His work includes systems for encoding music composition, technical expertise in sensor systems for performance and a long practice in sound design and music composition for moving pictures.As a composer his work includes electroacoustic and acoustic scores for feature and documentary film, video, theatre, dance and the concert stage. As a sound designer he has worked as a practitioner, consultant and teacher. As a performer and improviser, he has been a founding member of several ensembles since the early 1970s. Actively engaged in computational art for many years, Gotfrit was one of the founders of the federally funded Centre for Image and Sound Research (1988 - 1992). The designer and curator of the Music Machines show (B.C. Science World, 1989), he was also the facilitator of the "Computed Art" Summer Intensives at SFU in the 1990s. He has been on faculty at the School for the Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University since 1981 where he currently holds the position of Director. He recently completed a three year SSHRC Fine Arts Grant for a multidisciplinary project called "Computational Poetics" - this research centres upon installations, performance interfaces and algorithmic composition systems.