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'''Anthony Lewis Brooks (aka Tony): Digital artist, Associate Professor Aalborg University Denmark '''

Tony Brooks (born 1956) is the founder of the ArtAbilitation International conference in 2006 which is built upon his SoundScapes concept, research and field work which began in 1987. The concept is the use of noninvasive sensor-based input devices that source human kinetic data (motion) and map it to responsive multimedia. Input devices having various profiles are used, e.g. infrared (volumetric), ultrasound (linear) and camera (planar). Sourced data controls the multimedia which is based on various libraries of content that the human participant is empowered to control through gesture. The outcome of the mapped data to the mediums is e.g., Making Digital Music, Creating Digital Paintings, Controlling Robotic devices. The concept is used to create environments that he coined as Virtual Interactive Space (VIS, see Brooks 1999) which are used in performance art and also in therapy situations.

SoundScapes has been acknowledged as a music-therapy system (Eaglestone & Bamidis, 2008) (1) Tony Brooks - University web page