R. Luke DuBois

Tuesday, October 28th at 8pm, ISSUE Project Room welcomes sound artists, composers, and educators Dani Dobkin and Amir ElSaffar to present new solo work for the Serge Modular synthesizer. This event follows ISSUE’s celebration of the Serge Modular synthesizer’s 50th anniversary in 2023, and the limited engagement with Thomas Ankersmit this past summer at Columbia University’s Computer Music Center. After the completion of 2025 residencies at the NYU Integrated Design & Media audio lab, Dobkin and ElSaffar (with special guest, R. Luke DuBois) perform at ISSUE’s home theater with one of the most powerful and versatile electronic instruments of the analog era. 

R. Luke DuBois creates music, art, software, and circuits, not necessarily in that order. His artwork explores the temporal, verbal, and visual structures of cultural and personal ephemera, using data-driven techniques to investigate time, memory, identity, and the meaning of portraiture in the United States in the 21st Century. He is the co-chair of the department of Technology, Culture, and Society and research director of the programs in Integrated Design & Media at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, and a founding co-director of the NYU Ability Project. His research focuses on integrative systems for media and technology equity, ranging from open source software projects for signal processing and speech to telepresent communication systems for motion capture to citizen science for noise pollution to design for disability. His work has received support from the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Endowment for the Arts. He is on the Board of Directors at ISSUE Project Room, Eyebeam, and Tech Kids Unlimited.