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Phillip Stearns is a practitioner of sonic and visual arts; music composer and performer; electronics sculptor and installation artist. He has performed, lectured, exhibited and led workshops at various festivals, conferences, museums and institutions around the world including FILE (2009), NIME (2009), Bent Festival NYC (2009), FONLAD(2009), and Transitio (2009). With the help of the Van Lier Fellowship, Mr. Stearns explores the possibilities of neural networks as the basis for his upcoming installation, Entity I. The residency also includes a series of electronic art workshops held by Mr. Stearns and structured around the concepts behind his work with neural networks.


Phillip Stearns is a Brooklyn based artist and designer producing both physical and intangible works, performances, and experiences using electronic media. His practice spans several disciplines from creative coding and physical computing to interactive light and sound installations, computational weaving to performances using light and sound.