Andrew Blanton is Assistant Professor and Area Coordinator of the CADRE Media Labs at San Jose State University and PhD student in music composition working at the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT) at the University of California Berkeley. His work has been performed and presented around the world in venues such as Google Cultural Lab in Paris, The University of Brasilia, The City University of Hong Kong, and STEIM Amsterdam among many others. His current work focuses on the emergent potential between cross-disciplinary arts and technology in the context of Composition, New Media Art, and building sound + visual environments through software development. Andrew has advanced expertise in percussion, 3D environments/graphics programming, creative software development, and developing projects in the confluence of art and science.
Andrew Blanton, PØLARITIES, 2020
This 5 min animation is an excerpt discussing our current understanding of a world in flux. The work is a narrative animated short discussing the loss of utopian ideals and the realization of a future where our species is in parrel, do to excessive consumption of our planets natural resources.
Andrew Blanton, MØDULATOR, 2019
MØDULATOR is a composition and application for the iPhone/iPad and voice that processes audio from the microphone and creates a sound environment in real time. The application is released in iTunes as an artwork and tool for performance of the MØDULATOR composition.
Andrew Blanton, Panoptics, 2013
Panoptics is an attempt to reconstruct an artistic microcosm of the current state of surveillance, exploring the psychology of those who interact with such systems, the technical challenges to develop such systems and the critical understanding of how these systems are affecting our culture and society.