Rob Canning

Dr. Rob Canning is an Irish musician, intermedia artist and educator. He has produced music for the concert hall, theatre, screen and dance productions as well as working in a range of site-specific and improvisational contexts. His compositions have been performed internationally and presented at conferences including the ICMC (International Computer Music Conference), LAC (Linux Audio Conference) and NIME ( New Interfaces for Musical Expression). Since the late 90s, his work has relied solely on the use of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software). As a free culture advocate and educator he has worked closely with the GOTO10 media art collective, Openlab, London Hackspace and SPC medialab. He now lives and works in Slovenia, where he developing a rural art program within the Rizoma Institute. He holds a PhD in music composition from Goldsmiths University, London.