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Douglas Irving Repetto

Douglas Irving Repetto is an artist and teacher. His work, including sculpture, installation, performance, recordings, and software, is presented internationally. He is the founder of a number of art/community-oriented groups including dorkbot: people doing strange things with electricity, ArtBots: The Robot Talent Show, organism: making art with living systems, and the music-dsp mailing list and website.

In addition to working as an artist, curator, and organizer, Douglas is Director of Research at the Columbia University Computer Music Center. http://music.columbia.edu/~douglas

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Douglas Irving Repetto is an artist and teacher whose work in sculpture, installation, performance, recordings and software has been presented internationally; he founded art- and community-oriented groups including dorkbot: people doing strange things with electricity, ArtBots: The Robot Talent Show, organism: making art with living systems, and the music-dsp mailing list and website. In addition to working as an artist, curator and organizer, he serves as Director of Research at the Columbia University Computer Music Center.

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