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= Philippe Pasquier =

Philippe Pasquier is a Canadian researcher, musician, and AI artist, currently working as an associate professor in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology of Simon Fraser University's Faculty of Communication, Arts and Technology. His research focuses on building and applying theories for endowing machines with autonomous behaviours, with a particular focus on creative and artistic applications of AI towards sound generation, music composition, and visual art.

Education & Research
Developing a focus on artificial intelligence as an emerging technology in the late 90s, Pasquier completed a M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence completing an interdisciplinary program by ISAE-SUPAERO Institute of Aeronautics & Space, Paul Sabatier University, and ENSEEIHT in Toulouse, France. Pasquier then moved to Canada, pursuing a Ph.D. at the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Laval University, where he launched the DAMAS [Dialogue, Agent and Multi-Agents Systems] Laboratory. During his tenure at Laval, he continued his research into multi-agent systems and the cognitive abilities of intelligent agents under the thesis, Modelling the Cognitive Dimension of Agent Communication.

Continuing research into autonomous agent systems, Pasquier completed a research fellowship with the Intelligent Agent Laboratory with the Department of Information Systems at the University of Melbourne, Australia, before joining the Faculty of Communication, Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser Universit y. Focused on artificial intelligence and its application for creative uses, Philippe Pasquier has authored and collaborated on research projects and publications applying AI in multidisciplinary contexts, including works that engage with the fields of cognitive sciences, economics, and interactive arts.

Artistic Work
Applications of artificial intelligence and computational creativity are a core focus of Pasquier's artistic work, which has spanned music, visual art, and intermedia art, with a number of collaborations with other artists.

Longing and Forgetting is a large-scale urban screen art installation created in collaboration with Canadian artist Thecla Schiphorst and creative developer Matt Gingold. The piece unfolds through projected virtual agents climbing a building facade,. Longing and Forgetting is an outcome of research that explores how movement can be used more expressively and intelligently within interactive technologies.

More recent artworks include Respire, an immersive installation art piece created in collaboration with artists Mirjana Prpa & Kivanc Tatar, in which an abstract three-dimensional ocean and a music software agent work with a breathing sensor which serves as an interface for the user to interact with the AI-driven visual and musical output.

Musical Metacreation
Both as an artist and composer, and as an artificial intelligence researcher, Philippe Pasquier has been pursuing the development of autonomous systems capable of composing and generating music intelligently, whether trained on a corpus of human-composed source material, or interacting with human musicians in real time. This research and artistic explorations has generated a number of research projects, AI-generated music, and autonomous music generating agents.

Philippe was a founding member and long time chair of the board of Musical Metacreation (MuMe), an organization founded to bring together artists, practitioners and researchers interested in developing systems that autonomously (or interactively) recognize, learn, represent, compose, complete, accompany, or interpret music. The organization has hosted annual workshops, publications, concerts, and tutorials since its foundation in 2012.