Artist Bio
David Stout is a visual and sonic artist, performance director and digital film maker exploring the synthesis of new forms across the arts. He is recognized for works in cinema, installation and intermedia environments integrating immersive projection as an extension of performer, audience, and architecture. He is cofounder of the seminal interactive media ensemble, NoiseFold, whose multi-screen performances, installations, and sound works have toured worldwide. Having grown up in rural Oregon, David has a long deep connection to the land, waters, flora, fauna, and cultural histories of the west. His pursuit of an embodied eco-awareness extends to the interrelationship of complex multi-sensorial digital networks and the interdependent natural systems surrounding us. Drawing together the arts, technology, science and the tenets of global wisdom traditions, Stout embraces a speculative approach to emerging hybrid forms and potentials. These conceptual threads find expression in his current engagement with large scale public projection works, virtual reality, print making, generative AI, and performances that combine digital methods with art making traditions of the past including, mathematic generation of novel sculptural vessels realized in blown glass, the emulation of woven fabrics using real-time video processes and musical performances wedding diverse musical traditions with responsive visual technologies. He is director of the Hybrid Arts Laboratory (HAL) at the University of North Texas, where he coordinates the Initiative for Advance Research in Technology and the Arts (iARTA) as both a member of the College of Music Composition department and as affiliated faculty in Studio Art.