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Palle Dahlstedt

Professor

Interaction Design (IxD)
Telephone
+46 31-772 82 07
+46 703-08 82 07
Mail
palle.dahlstedt@gu.se
Visiting address
Lindholmsplatsen 1
417 56 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 100
412 96 Göteborg

About Palle Dahlstedt

Palle Dahlstedt is a composer, sound artist, improviser and researcher. He studied composition (MA, MFA) at the music academiers of Malmö (Lund University) and Göteborg (MFA, MA), and has a PhD (Chalmers, 2004) in creative AI algorithms for composers. Currently professor of Interaction Design and lecturer in electronic music composition at the University of Gothenburg. His research interest is the deep entanglement of art and advanced technology, developing new technologies for computer-aided improvisation, composition and art, for embodied performance on electronic sounds, and technologies enabling new kinds of interactions, based on a systems view of emergence from human-technology interactions. He has contributed technologies and theories to the field of computational creativity, and has published extensively on creative AI for more than 25 years. He is often engaged as a public speaker about the ethical and aesthetical implications of AI in art, music and society.

Dahlstedt shares his time between the Academy of Music and Drama (University of Gothenburg), teaching electronic music composition, and the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, (University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology), as Professor of Interaction Design. He is also Adjunct Professor of Art & Technology, Aalborg University.