Seth Cluett
- Faculty of Arts and Sciences
- Director, Computer Music Center, Music Department
Center Affiliations
Data, Media and Society Affiliated Member
Sense, Collect and Move Data Affiliated Member
Seth Cluett is a composer, visual artist, and researcher. With work ranging from photography and drawing to installation, performance, and critical writing, his “subtle…seductive, immersive” (Artforum) sound work has been characterized as “rigorously focused and full of detail” (e/i) and “dramatic, powerful, and at one with nature” (The Wire). The recipient of grants from NYSSCA, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Fund, and Meet the Composer, his work has been presented internationally at venues such as The Whitney Museum, MoMA/PS1, Moving Image Art Fair, CONTEXT Art Miami, GRM, and STEIM. His research and critical writings investigate embodied cognition, sound in virtual and augmented reality, computational creativity, the media history of the loudspeaker, and architectural acoustics Cluett is Artist-in-Residence at Nokia Bell Labs and Director of the Computer Music Center at Columbia University where he is on the faculty of music composition and serves as Assistant Director of the Sound Art MFA Program.