portfolio/server/data/resume.json

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  "id": "555aae516bde04b061493322",
  "basics": {
    "name": "Michael Winter",
    "label": "Curriculum Vitae",
    "email": "mwinter@unboundedpress.org",
    "phone": "+49.176.6807.2118",
    "website": "https://unboundedpress.org",
    "summary": "here is a statement",
    "location": {
      "address": "Boxhagener Strasse",
      "postalCode": "10245",
      "city": "Berlin",
      "countryCode": "DE",
      "region": "Berlin"
    }
  },
  "teaching": [
    {
      "company": "Gustav Mahler Privatuniversität für Musik",
      "position": "University Professor of Sound and Intermedia",
      "website": "https://gmpu.ac.at/",
      "startDate": "2025-03-03",
      "courses": [
        "Experimental Music Workshop",
        "Musicology Seminar",
        "History of Tuning Systems",
        "Sound and Intermedia curricula (launching Winter 2026)"
      ],
      "highlights": [
        "Topics: Sound Art and Intermedia",
        "Activities: Develop sound and intermedia program, aid in development and launch of doctoral program, conduct artistic research, organize events, advise theses, equip and steward artistic research laboratory"
      ],
      "committees": [
        {"role": "Chair", "name": "Arbeitskreis für Gleichbehandlung (committee for equal treatment)"},
        {"role": "Member", "name": "Studienkommission (curricula review committee)"},
        {"role": "Member", "name": "Folep (artistic research direction of the university)"}
      ],
      "events": [
        {"name": "NOISE SILENCE ACTION", "type": "Concert"},
        {"name": "Intentional and Random", "type": "Concert"},
        {"name": "Embodied Differences", "type": "Workshop"},
        {"name": "The Between Things", "type": "Forum"}
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO)",
      "position": "International Visiting Professor",
      "website": "https://www.unirio.br/",
      "startDate": "2020-02-01",
      "endDate": "2020-12-01",
      "summary": "Courses: Graduate and undergraduate seminars (unable to commence position in person)",
      "highlights": [
        "Topics: Acoustic ecologies and sound art, computer music, epistemology",
        "Activities and Responsibilities: Organized invited guests for weekly seminars, led and moderated discussion, a publication on the ethics of access in higher education"
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "University of Southern California",
      "position": "USC Brain Project Lead Developer",
      "website": "http://bodb.usc.edu/bodb",
      "startDate": "2014-01-20",
      "endDate": "2016-08-31",
      "summary": "Courses: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence",
      "highlights": [
        "Topics: Neural networks, computational neuromodelling",
        "Activities and Responsibilities: Helped develop and teach the neuroinformatics track of an AI course, assisted with doctoral student projects"
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "The Art Institute of California, Hollywood",
      "position": "Instructor",
      "website": "http://www.artinstitutes.edu/hollywood/",
      "startDate": "2010-06-01",
      "endDate": "2011-04-01",
      "summary": "Courses: Logic of Programming, Web Design, Sound Design, Interactive Design",
      "highlights": [
        "Topics: Interactive design, game theory, digital audio workstations, sound design and synthesis, Python, HTML, CSS, history of electronic music",
        "Activities and Responsibilities: Curriculum development, grading, faculty and student administration"
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "University of California, Santa Barbara",
      "position": "Teaching Assistant",
      "website": "http://mat.uscb.edu",
      "startDate": "2007-08-01",
      "endDate": "2008-04-01",
      "summary": "Courses: Transvergence, Digital Audio Signal Processing",
      "highlights": [
        "Topics: Digital architecture, philosophy of art, sound design and synthesis, composition, Java, motion detection, immersive environments, history of electronic music",
        "Activities and Responsibilities: Lab and studio management, grading"
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "University of Virginia, Charlottesville",
      "position": "Teaching Assistant",
      "website": "http://music.virginia.edu/",
      "startDate": "2006-08-01",
      "endDate": "2007-05-01",
      "summary": "Courses: Technosonics, Introduction to Music and Computers",
      "highlights": [
        "Topics: Digital audio workstations, sound design and synthesis, composition, history of electronic music",
        "Activities and Responsibilities: Lab and studio management, grading"
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "California Institute of the Arts",
      "position": "Teaching Assistant",
      "website": "https://music.calarts.edu/",
      "startDate": "2003-08-01",
      "endDate": "2005-05-01",
      "summary": "Course: Introduction to Electronic Media and Computers",
      "highlights": [
        "Topics: Digital audio workstations, sound design and synthesis, composition, history of electronic music",
        "Activities and Responsibilities: Lab and studio management, grading"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "work": [
    {
      "company": "Max Planck Institute for the History of Sciences",
      "position": "Research Scholar, IT Architect",
      "website": "http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.org",
      "startDate": "2022-03-01",
      "endDate": "2023-05-31",
      "summary": "Project: Oral Histories in Biomedicine",
      "highlights": [
        "Activities and Responsibilities: Digital humanities specialist, development and deployment of digital collection platform for oral histories, database and website scraping, Big Data management, website and server deployment and administration, code repository management and version control, close collaboration with philosophers, historians, and library sciences researchers"
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "the wulf.",
      "position": "Co-founder, Co-director (until 2018), President of the Board of Directors",
      "website": "http://www.thewulf.org",
      "startDate": "2008-08-01",
      "endDate": "",
      "summary": "Project: A 501(c)(3) nonprofit arts organization that presents free experimental music performances",
      "highlights": [
        "Activities and Responsibilities: Organizing regular public events in experimental arts; grant writing; audio archive development and maintenance; Python/Django website and server development and maintenance; interfacing with artists, charitable organizations, educational institutions, and private and public partners; managing staff, interns, and volunteers; code repository management and version control; designing governance and policy structure of the organization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "University of Southern California",
      "position": "USC Brain Project Lead Developer",
      "website": "http://bodb.usc.edu/bodb",
      "startDate": "2014-01-20",
      "endDate": "2016-08-31",
      "summary": "Project: Neuroinformatics platform connecting large datasets to promote cross-discipline collaborations",
      "highlights": [
        "Activities and Responsibilities: Python/Django development integrating and federating databases of linguistics, primate behavior, and computational neuromodels; database and website scraping; Big Data management; automated video tagging; website and server deployment and administration, code repository management and version control; daily meetings with doctoral candidates in Computational Neuromodeling assisting with individual projects"
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "Wolfram Research",
      "position": "Research Programmer and Consultant",
      "website": "http://www.wolfram.com",
      "startDate": "2012-06-01",
      "endDate": "2016-08-15",
      "summary": "Project: Signal processing core system development",
      "highlights": [
        "Activities and Responsibilities: Designing and implementing a real-time audio system for the Wolfram Language, weekly team meetings with the Signal Processing Group, code repository management and version control"
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "Wolfram Alpha",
      "position": "Research Programmer",
      "website": "http://www.wolframalpha.com",
      "startDate": "2011-04-01",
      "endDate": "2012-06-01",
      "summary": "Project: Wolfram computational knowledge engine",
      "highlights": [
        "Activities and Responsibilities: Domain expert for Music, database and website scraping, Big Data management, natural language processing and curation, code repository management and version control, weekly meetings with the Arts and Humanities development and curation teams"
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "Music Mastermind",
      "position": "Developer and Consultant",
      "website": "http://www.music-mastermind.com/",
      "startDate": "2008-06-01",
      "endDate": "2009-07-01",
      "summary": "Project: Game engine for generating music",
      "highlights": [
        "Activities and Responsibilities: Designing and implementing algorithmic tools for automatic music creation, implementing Hidden Markov Models in Java, code repository management and version control, weekly meetings with development team"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "education": [
    {
      "institution": "University of California, Santa Barbara",
      "area": "Media Arts and Technology",
      "studyType": "PhD",
      "startDate": "2007-08-01",
      "endDate": "2010-06-01"
    },
    {
      "institution": "California Institute of the Arts, Valencia",
      "area": "Music Composition",
      "studyType": "MFA",
      "startDate": "2003-08-01",
      "endDate": "2005-05-15"
    },
    {
      "institution": "University of Oregon, Eugene",
      "area": "Music Technology",
      "studyType": "BS",
      "startDate": "2000-08-01",
      "endDate": "2003-06-01"
    }
  ],
  "solo_releases": [
    {
      "title": "some pieces with sustained sounds one of which is punctuated every once in a while with other sounds",
      "publisher": "a wave press",
      "work": "tergiversate; pedal, triangle machine, and (perhaps) coda, Rise I from 4 Ascents for James Tenney",
      "media_type": "Cassette Tape",
      "date": "forthcoming"
    },
    {
      "title": "Counterfeiting in Colonial Connecticut / a lot of tiles (trivial scan)",
      "publisher": "XI Records",
      "work": "Counterfeiting in Colonial Connecticut; a lot of tiles (trivial scan)",
      "media_type": "CD",
      "date": "2022"
    },
    {
      "title": "single track",
      "publisher": "Another Timbre",
      "work": "single track",
      "media_type": "CD",
      "date": "2021"
    },
    {
      "title": "preliminary thoughts",
      "publisher": "Tsonami Records",
      "work": "preliminary thoughts",
      "media_type": "CD",
      "date": "2018"
    },
    {
      "title": "preliminary thoughts",
      "publisher": "Bánh Mì Verlag",
      "work": "preliminary thoughts",
      "media_type": "Cassette Tape",
      "date": "2018"
    },
    {
      "title": "lower limit: music for plucked strings",
      "publisher": "New World Records",
      "work": "chorale and finely tuned resonators; lower limit; mass and band; necklaces",
      "media_type": "CD",
      "date": "2018"
    },
    {
      "title": "Approximating Omega",
      "publisher": "Edition Wandelweiser Records",
      "work": "Approximating Omega; for gregory chaitin",
      "media_type": "CD",
      "date": "2017"
    }
  ],
  "compilation_releases": [
    {
      "title": "west coast soundings",
      "publisher": "Edition Wandelweiser Records",
      "work": "small world",
      "media_type": "CD",
      "date": "2014"
    },
    {
      "title": "rounds",
      "publisher": "the wulf. records",
      "work": "welcome round for larry",
      "media_type": "Vinyl",
      "date": "2013"
    },
    {
      "title": "Music of Ostrava Days 2009 Live",
      "publisher": "Ostrava Center for New Music",
      "work": "recitation, code, and (perhaps) round",
      "media_type": "CD",
      "date": "2009"
    },
    {
      "title": "DIY Canons",
      "publisher": "Pogus Productions",
      "work": "Filter IV P.I.X.L. Study No. 1",
      "media_type": "CD",
      "date": "2005"
    }
  ],
  "skills": [
    {
      "name": "Coding and Development Skills",
      "keywords": [
        "SuperCollider",
        "Arduino",
        "Python",
        "JavaScript",
        "Lilypond",
        "Java",
        "Mathematica",
        "CAD (OpenSCAD)",
        "CSS",
        "HTML",
        "MySQL",
        "NoSQL",
        "AI",
        "Big Data",
        "Coding Agents",
        "3D Prototyping and Printing",
        "Physical Computing",
        "Instrument Design"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "languages": [
    {
      "language": "English",
      "fluency": "fluent"
    },
    {
      "language": "Spanish",
      "fluency": "advanced"
    },
    {
      "language": "German",
      "fluency": "conversational"
    }
  ],
  "references": [
    {
      "name": "Curtis Roads",
      "position": "Professor of Media Arts and Technology, University of California, Santa Barbara",
      "email": "clangtint@gmail.com"
    },
    {
      "name": "Amy Beal",
      "position": "Professor of Musicology, University of California, Santa Cruz",
      "email": "abeal@ucsc.edu"
    },
    {
      "name": "Juan Sebastián Lach Lau",
      "position": "Professor of Composition, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Morelia",
      "email": "lachjs@gmail.com"
    }
  ],
  "residencies": [
    {
      "org": "Creative Europe Programme of the European Union/Goethe-Institut Culture Moves Europe Grant, EU",
      "type": "Grant",
      "date": "2023"
    },
    {
      "org": "Musikfonds Grant (STIP-III), Germany",
      "type": "Grant",
      "date": "2023"
    },
    {
      "org": "ADK Initial 2 Grant, Germany",
      "type": "Grant",
      "date": "2022"
    },
    {
      "org": "GEMA Artist Grant, Germany",
      "type": "Grant",
      "date": "2022"
    },
    {
      "org": "Akademie Schloss Solitude, Germany",
      "type": "Artist Residency",
      "date": "2018–2019"
    },
    {
      "org": "GoctaLab, Peru",
      "type": "Artist Residency",
      "date": "2016"
    },
    {
      "org": "La Paternal Espacio Proyecto, Argentina",
      "type": "Artist Residency",
      "date": "2014"
    },
    {
      "org": "Foundation for Contemporary Arts, USA",
      "type": "Grant",
      "date": "2014"
    },
    {
      "org": "Wolfram Alpha, USA",
      "type": "Residency (as Research Associate in Music)",
      "date": "2014"
    },
    {
      "org": "Atlantic Center for the Arts, USA",
      "type": "Artist Residency",
      "date": "2009"
    },
    {
      "org": "Ostrava New Music Days, Czech Republic",
      "type": "Artist Residency (as student)",
      "date": "2007 and 2009"
    }
  ]
}