## Breadcrumb 1. [Home](/index%2Ephp/) 2. [Overview](/index%2Ephp/academics) 3. [Faculty Members](/index%2Ephp/academics/explore-faculty) 4. [Marcus Gordon](/index%2Ephp/markdownify/node/3934) # Marcus Gordon ![](https://ultima7-its.ocadu.ca/bios/mgordon/portrait) mgordon@ocadu.ca Faculty Information Assistant Professor, Tenure-Track Faculty of Design Areas of ExpertiseLive 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. ### Works #### Review of Blackwell, Alan F.; Cocker, Emma; Cox, Geoff; McLean, Alex; Magnusson, Thor, Live Coding: A User's Manual. H-Sci-Med-Tech, H-Net Reviews H-Net Reviews Published: December 7th 2023 [View Article »](https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=58953) #### LTTP:// Transmodal image to sound synth module for live coding and performance-led research. Published: December 31st 2022 #### An Astrophysicist's Tale - Electroacoustic / Live Coded Composition Published: December 31st 2022 A program note for a live coded music composition. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZvPhnNOnyY #### sigv: a mini-language for transmodal live coding CVR Conference Published: October 7th 2022 [View Article »](https://rgdoi.net/10.13140/RG.2.2.28943.66729) #### ArtScience and the ICECUBE LED Display \[ILDm^3\] MM 2021 - Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Multimedia Published: October 7th 2021 [View Article »](http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85119320240&partnerID=MN8TOARS) #### HCI Design Principles and Visual Analytics for Media Analytics Platform Communications in Computer and Information Science Published: October 7th 2019 [View Article »](http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85069696641&partnerID=MN8TOARS) #### Compara Encounters in Theory and History of Education Published: December 7th 2018 #### Atlas of the Electrical Generators of Sleep Published: October 7th 2018 [View Article »](https://books.google.ca/books?id=-PNhDwAAQBAJ) #### Culture Creates Bonds Published: October 7th 2018 #### User-centered taxonomy for urban transportation applications Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) Published: October 7th 2018 [View Article »](http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85050473103&partnerID=MN8TOARS) #### Analyzing student travel patterns with augmented data visualizations DIS 2017 Companion - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems Published: October 7th 2017 [View Article »](http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85022212739&partnerID=MN8TOARS) #### Visualizing the Sociotechnical System as an Urban Democratic Resource RELATING SYSTEMS THINKING AND DESIGN (RSD6) 2017 SYMPOSIUM Published: October 7th 2017 [View Article »](https://rsdsymposium.org/visualizing-the-sociotechnical-system/) #### Habitat 44º - The Art of Reconstruction Published: December 31st 2016 With my thesis project, Habitat 44o, I investigate the complexity of holographic space and how holography has the potential to augment the observers’ view of their surrounding environment. The purpose of this research is to isolate unique characteristics of architecture and holography to lay the foundation for my art practice. In the field of holography, both artists and scientists alike refer to the holographic image as a “reconstruction," a shorthand for wavefront reconstruction. At the intersection of holography and architecture, I explore the critical implications of my reconstructions through the lens of Jens Schröter and his analysis of the transplane image, and through Rosalind Krauss' concept of axiomatic structures. Taking a constructivist approach, I create a holographic artwork and fabricate a spatial canvas that acts as an intervention in architectural space in order to construct a theory and practice of environmental holography. #### Urban Arboretum This research article describes an interactive art installation titled “Urban Arboretum” and the work behind its creation. The article discusses o-sigv, an instrument for transmodal live coding based on the esoteric language Orca, used to live code a series of biomes. The article also discusses plant growth algorithms created and visualized in the live coding environment Hydra. Combined, the authors and their respective live coding languages were used to deliver both a live coding performance and interactive installation with the voices and sounds of their audience. #### nbcli-meta/6020: 6020 No description provided. #### nbcli-meta/composition: Algorithmic Composition Experiments Repository for research and works in algorithmic composition. #### nbcli-meta/nbcli: nbcli Repository for nbcli (nothing but CLI) meta-instrument project at https://nbcli.space #### nbcli-meta/o-sigv: o-sigv Configuration support repository for sigv: https://magfoto.itch.io/sigv #### nbcli-meta/o-sigv: o-sigv Configuration support repository for sigv: https://magfoto.itch.io/sigv #### nbcli-meta/orca-max-experiments: Orca Max Experiments No description provided. #### nbcli-meta/orca-modules: $omods Orca modules library of patterns and compositions. #### nbcli-meta/rhythmus-7E5: Rhythmus 7E5 A generative audiovisual composition #### nbcli-meta/schema: nbcli Schema No description provided. #### nbcli-meta/sigv.js: sigv.js No description provided. #### nbcli-meta/sigv: sigv No description provided. #### nbcli-meta/sigview: sigview Real-Time Signal Visualization Research ### Education #### PhD (ABD) **Type:** Computational Arts York University #### MFA / Digital Futures OCAD University ### Employment #### Assistant Professor, Tenure-Track **Type:** Faculty of Design OCAD University #### Adjunct Professor **Type:** Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences OCAD University #### Manager **Type:** Visual Analytics Lab OCAD University #### Medical Holography Researcher **Type:** PHASE Lab OCAD University #### Sessional Instructor **Type:** Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences OCAD University #### Design Researcher (Intern) **Type:** IBM Design IBM (Canada) #### Graduate Research Assistance (Visual Analytics Lab) **Type:** Research OCAD University #### Research Assistant (PHASE Lab) **Type:** Research Ontario College of Art and Design #### Digital Art Strategist/Researcher **Type:** Research Cerebral Diagnostics (Canada) #### Game Design Instructor Recording Arts Canada \| Institut d'enregistrement du Canada