Marcel Zaes SAGESSER
Assistant Professor
also known under the artist name Marcel Zaes, Assistant Professor of the School of Design at Southern University of Science and Technology, is an artist and researcher in sound, digital media and music composition. Marcel will join the SUSTech School of Design as a Professor of Media Arts and Technology in January 2022. He holds a PhD in Computer Music and Multimedia from Brown University, and MA degrees in media arts and in music composition from Bern University of the Arts and Zurich University of the Arts, respectively. In his work, Marcel focuses on the manifold ways in which humans craft their relationships with sounding technologies, and how sound is always embedded in a larger sociocultural context. His research includes work on experimental rhythm machines, digital sound archives, noise culture, sound in public space, critical user interface design, popular music, and “techno” culture in electronic music performance. Zaes has been awarded a number of grants and art prizes, has played numerous concerts and taken part in group exhibitions internationally, has repeatedly been an artist in residence, and has had his works performed by ensembles internationally. To date, he has published eleven musical records.
