Robert Appleton

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About Robert Appleton

Robert Appleton is a Visual Music Artist/Designer/Photographer/Musician/Teacher/Researcher. He returned to University in 2017 to advance his studies in computation and linguistics and complete the thesis on his multimedia language vorTEX. He is currently a PhD student in music at York University. Born in Scotland, he left an art director position at Saatchi & Saatchi London, to study percussion with Tony Oxley (1974-76) and fine art and photography at St Martins School of Art. He became a photojournalist for BBC Television, and emigrated to the US in 1979. An early adopter of the personal computer, his design for music (Ornette Coleman, John Cage, etc ), his Women of Hope posters and his Women of Hope posters and his vorTEX (visual+aural+textual) multimedia language, have won international recognition. He has taught at Cooper Union and Parsons School of Design in New York, CAFA and Glasgow School of Art in Beijing, Ryerson and OCADU in Toronto – where he earned an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art Media and Design in 2010. He instigated the AGI Foundation in 2010 to expand AGI’s influence on research and future design - it was closed in 2017. He has made improvised music since he was a child and remains fascinated by art and sound. He designs and creates live performance, and he researches, writes and speaks about this internationally.