Peter Kirn

is an audiovisual artist, journalist, and technologist. Classically trained in composition and piano, he now focuses on live electronic performance. He is the founder of CDM, a widely-read daily site that explores creative technology, and has contributed to Macworld, Popular Science, De:Bug, Keyboard, and others. He teaches and develops open creative tools, including co-creating the open source MeeBlip synthesizer. Born in Kentucky, he is now based in Berlin.

He is a PhD Candidate in Music Composition at The City University of New York Graduate Center.

Performance presentations include B-Seite (Mannheim), Live Performers Meeting (LPM, Rome, IT), Patch A/V Festival (Krakow, PL), Frequency Festival (Lincoln, UK) CommuniKey Festival (Boulder, CO), Devotion Gallery (New York), In/Out Festival (New York), InterAccess Gallery (Toronto), the Lab for Electronic Arts and Performance (LEAP, Berlin), Dance Theater Workshop (New York), Boston CyberArts Festival Ideas in Motion (Boston, MA), Vorspiel at Supermarkt (Berlin), Silo Sessions at Mindpirates (Berlin), Krautok at about:blank (Berlin), and others.

Lectures and workshops include Resonate (Belgrade), OFFF (Lisbon), re:publica (Berlin), Campus Party (Berlin), SONAR (Barcelona), and others.