University of North Texas 
David Stout
Composition Studies
Professor of Composition Studies and Intermedia
Initiative for Advanced Research in Technology and the Arts (iARTA), Coordinator
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Music Building
David Stout is a visual and sonic artist, writer, filmmaker and performance director. He is cofounder of the seminal audiovisual duo NoiseFold, whose visionary performances and immersive installations have toured worldwide. Drawing together the arts, technology, science and tenets of global wisdom traditions, Stout embraces the accelerating emergence of hybrid art forms and their potential for exploring consciousness to activate greater cultural, self and planetary awareness. These conceptual threads find expression in his current engagement with large-scale public art works, virtual reality, generative media, printmaking and performances that combine digital methods with art-making traditions of the past. These diverse works include algorithmic design of speculative vessels realized in blown glass and the wedding of multifarious musical traditions with synthetic media and responsive visual technologies.
Stout is exploring the potentials and pitfalls of machine learning applications while also melding electronics with the most elemental sound-making mediums, from flowing water and tuned stones to stirring the wind with leaves and branches. He previously founded the MOV-iN Gallery for new media art and the Installation, Performance & Interactivity project at the College of Santa Fe in New Mexico. He directs the Hybrid Arts Laboratory and coordinates the Initiative for Advanced Research in Technology and the Arts (iARTA), an interdisciplinary faculty research consortium at the University of North Texas, where he teaches Intermedia Performance and holds a professorship in music composition and an affiliated faculty post in studio art.
An award-winning teacher and researcher, Stout has been at the forefront of experiential collaborative learning. His former students are thriving independent artists, contemporary composers, touring musicians, lauded choreographers, new media producers, film industry specialists, documentarians, directors, immersive experience designers, software developers, activists, writers and educators.
Stout holds a Master of Fine Arts in film/video and music from the California Institute of the Arts and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in visual art and design from the University of Oregon, with additional graduate studies in music, television and dance at Oregon State University.
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