GE WANG

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 specializes in artful design — researching programming language and software design for music, interaction design, mobile music, laptop orchestras, aesthetics of technology-mediated design, virtual/augment 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. Ge is the author of Artful Design: Technology in Search of the Sublime: a comic book about design and technology, art and life (Stanford University Press, September 2018). Ge is a Guggenheim Fellow. He serves as a Senior Fellow of the Stanford Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (Stanford HAI) Institute.

Check out Ge's research group and the courses he teaches. Presently, Ge and his students work on ChucK music programming language (now in its third decade), a VR Orchestra, interactive AI, and the liberal education of the PI-Shaped person. He designs critically, writes perseveringly (writing is not easy!), 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 Artful Design, 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?").

Track Ge down: homepage, youtube, instagram, blueksy, medium (Artful Design musings) or, hey, write him a physical letter (660 Lomita Dr., Stanford, CA 94305). Below are some (increasingly less) recent videos, spanning tech / hike / art / life.