The Arts, Visualization, Advanced Technologies and Research, or AVATAR, Initiative in Digital Media welcomes Jesse Allison to our faculty working within this multidisciplinary hiring initiative at LSU.
Allison has accepted a position as assistant professor in LSU's School of Music, where he will be a faculty member in the Experimental Music & Digital Media area. He also holds a joint appointment with the LSU Center for Computation & Technology, where AVATAR is housed. Prior to joining LSU, he worked as a sonic and hybrid media artist, serving as the Virtual Worlds Coordinator for Interactive Arts Research and Development for Digital Intermedia Art and Animation (IDIA) at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. Allison is also President of Hardware Engineering of Electrotap, LLC, an innovative media arts firm.
As an artist, Allison has disseminated works and research around the globe through live performance art, interactive installations, virtual and hybrid worlds installations, and paper presentations. At Electrotap, he has developed sensor technology, interactive software, and commercial audio plugins through all stages of production. Through his research at IDIA, he taught sonic and hybrid arts and led teams of faculty, graduate students, undergraduates, and external organizations in large-scale projects. Allison received his doctor of musical arts in composition from the University of Missouri -- Kansas City.
LSU is excited to welcome Jesse Allison and his family to Baton Rouge as he becomes the newest member of AVATAR.
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