Marcus Gordon

mgordon@ocadu.ca
Assistant Professor, Tenure-Track
Faculty of Design
Live coding
archimusic
generative music
hip-hop architecture
holography
visualization.

magfoto (Marcus Gordon, he/him) is Assistant Professor, Tenure-Track at OCAD University, an Afrofuturist live coder, photographer, artist, and PhD candidate in Computational Arts at York University. His artistic practices include live coding performance, experimental music, composition and improvisation with modular synthesis. He is a member of the Endemics live coding ensemble, and often moonlights in behind the scenes photography. He holds an MFA in Digital Futures from OCAD University where he learned holography and began his research on the subject of the transplane image. Marcus freelanced as creative director and designer as Studio Diversity with a host of freelance designers and artists from 1999 to 2014, before focusing on computational photography and art research with the OCAD U PHASE Lab. Since beginning his doctoral studies, he continues his research with the nd::Studio Lab working on volumetric displays as visual music instruments, architectonic media intervention, live coding and hip-hop architecture. As Advisory Board Member with the Innovation Council of the Toronto Public Library, Marcus also advocates for digital literacy and creative coding in the arts and sciences. magfoto is based in Tkaronto/Toronto.