Interdisciplinary scholar. Educator. Electronic/computer music artist.#
Dr. Ben Swift is a Senior Lecturer and PhD Program Convenor at the School of Cybernetics.
Ben is an internationally-recognised interdisciplinary scholar, electronic/computer music artist and creative technologist. He’s an expert in AI/machine learning, computational art & music, computing education, user experience (UX) design, and cybernetics.
He leads the Cybernetic Studio—a cybernetic community that makes things out of hardware/software/people/stuff to explore cybernetic systems and their impact on the world.
As a livecoding artist he has performed at international arts festivals, including the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) and the International Conference on Live Coding (ICLC). He is also a founding director of the ANU Laptop Ensemble, an interdisciplinary computer music research and teaching collective.
Ben is a maker of open-source software tools for
generative AI, music, creative code, data analysis/visualisation, and more. He’s
one half of the core development team for the
Extempore programming environment 