Ge Wang Keynote Speaker

Ge Wang is an Associate Professor at Stanford University at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), in the Departments of Music and Computer Science. He serves as a Senior Fellow and an Associate Director of the Stanford Institute on Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI). Ge is a Guggenheim Fellow and the author of Artful Design: Technology in Search of the Sublime, a comic book about design and technology, art and life.

Ge specializes in artful design researching programming language and software design for music, interaction design, mobile music, laptop orchestras, aesthetics of technology-mediated design, virtual/augmented reality design, and education at the intersection of engineering, art, and design. Ge is the creator of the ChucK music programming language, the founding director of the Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk) and the Stanford VR Design Lab @ CCRMA, the Co-founder of Smule (reaching over 200 million users), the designer of the iPhone’s Ocarina and Magic Piano.

Presently, Ge and his students work on music programming language design, a VR Orchestra, interactive AI, and the liberal education of engineers. He designs critically and writes about technology, and gives talks that question how we want to live with our technology (and ourselves). His recent article, “GenAI Is the Least Imaginative Use of AI Imaginable”, poses the question “what if the point of art is that we actually make it?”. Drawing from, Ge teaches Music, Computing, Design: The Art of Design (a course about the
craft and practical philosophy of design), and Music and AI (a critical making course that poses the question, “what do we really want from artificial intelligence?”).