Michael Century, composer/performer and cultural theorist, is Professor of New Media and Music in the Arts Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, which he joined in 2002. Before Rensselaer, he worked as a new media researcher, inter-arts producer, and arts policy advisor (Banff Centre for the Arts (1979-93), McGill University (1998-2002), Government of Canada (1993-98)). His book Northern Sparks appeared in 2022 with The MIT Press. Century’s works for live and electronically processed instruments have been performed and broadcast in concerts and festivals internationally, including ISEA, IRCAM Forum, Ars Electronica Expanded Animation, Media Art Histories, CCRMA@Stanford University, Toronto Music Gallery, Diapason Gallery (NYC), Vancouver Jazz Festival, Banff Festival of the Arts, CBC’s Two New Hours.
