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Marc Downie is an artist and artificial intelligence researcher who lives and works in Cambridge, Mass. Born in Aberdeen, UK he has an MA in natural science and a MSci in physics from the University of Cambridge. After graduating at the head of his class with the Mott Prize in the Natural Sciences, he packed his computer and left Britain to become an artist. Downie has collaborated extensively with colleagues at the MIT Media Lab, leading projects such as AlphaWolf (A Prix Ars Electronica honorable mention in 2002), Dobie (SIGGRAPH 2002), and (void *) (SIGGRAPH 2000). More recently, in 2003, his solo piece Music Creatures : Experiments in Intelligent Form was commissioned by the Ars Electronica festival. These large interactive works presented advances in the fields of interactive music, machine learning and computer graphics. In addition, Downie has created digital projections with artists Merce Cunningham, Paul Kaiser and Shelley Eshkar (Both Loops and Lifelike, for the recent Merce Cunningham Dance Company work Fluid Canvas 2002-3). This year Downie and Kaiser completed Loops Score, a live digital reinterpretation of Cunningham's voice transposed onto John Cage's prepared piano that received a Prix Ars Electronica honorable mention. His work has been shown internationally at venues including ZKM, SIGGRAPH, ICA London, the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Barbican Centre. |
