Golan Levin (American, b. 1972) is an artist, educator and researcher who has worked in software art since 1995, building interactive systems that turn image, sound and gesture into live performance. Early works such as Dialtones: A Telesymphony (2001), a concert performed through the choreographed dialing and ringing of audience members' mobile phones, established this interest in turning ordinary human input into collective sound and image.
Levin studied in the Aesthetics and Computation Group that John Maeda founded at the MIT Media Lab in the 1990s. He earned undergraduate and graduate degrees there before working for four years as an interaction designer and research scientist at Interval Research Corporation in Palo Alto. He later became Director of the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry and a professor at Carnegie Mellon University.
