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Georgina Born

Georgina Born is a Professor of Anthropology and Music at University College London. Earlier she had a professional life as a musician in experimental rock, jazz and improvised music. Her work combines ethnography with conceptual work on music and its social, technological and temporal mediation. Her books include Rationalizing Culture (1995), Western Music and Its Others (2000), Music, Sound and Space (2013), Interdisciplinarity (2013), Improvisation and Social Aesthetics (2017), and Music and Digital Media: A Planetary Anthropology (2022). Music and Genre: New Directions will be published by Duke in 2027. She has held the Bloch Professorship in Music, UC Berkeley (2014); the Schulich Distinguished Professorship in Music, McGill (2015); a Visiting Professorship in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, UC Irvine (2019-20, 2023-24); Professor II in Musicology, University of Oslo (2014-19); and has been Global Scholar in Music, Princeton University (2020-22). Awards include the RMA’s Dent Medal (2007), a Fellowship of the British Academy (2014), an OBE ‘for services to anthropology, musicology and higher education’ (2016), and the IMS’s Guido Adler Prize (2024). From 2021-26 she is directing an ERC-funded program called ‘Music and Artificial Intelligence: Building Critical Interdisciplinary Studies’, which, through music, researches the cultural implications of AI.

Kathy Hinde

Kathy Hinde is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice embraces open methods and evolving processes. Composed of hand-made objects, electronics and a blend of digital and analogue systems, her work represents a cross between kinetic sound sculptures and newly invented instruments. Awards include an Ivor Novello Award for Sound Art, an Honorary Mention at Prix Ars Electronica, a British Composer Award in Sonic Art, an ORAM award, and a Scottish Award for New Music. Kathy is a member of Bristol Experimental Expanded Film (BEEF).