Marcel Zaes Sagesser , PhD
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Professor
Media Creation Research Group
Institute of Creative\Media/Technologies - Academic Director
- Department of Media and Digital Technologies
Location
A - Campus-Platz 1
A-3100
St. Pölten
- Department :
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- Media and Digital Technologies
- Institute :
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- Institute of Creative\Media/Technologies
Short profile
- Artist and Researcher in Creative Media, Sound, and Technology, he investigates how humans are increasingly intertwined with their technologies and renders these relations audible and visible.
- Marcel is active as an artist with international exhibition and concert activities. For research, he is publishing scholarly work in international outlets in sound studies, media studies, humanities, and applied computer sciences.
- Since 2025: Professor and Academic Director at the UAS St. Pölten
- 2022-2025 Assistant Professor of Media Arts & Technology at Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
- 2016-2021: PhD in Computer Music & Multimedia at Brown University, US
- 2018: Studio Residency with Swiss Cultural Council Pro Helvetia in New Delhi, India
- 2015: Composer-in-Residence with Landis & Gyr Foundation in Budapest, Hungary
- 2009-2016: Freelancer (one-person company) in the creative industries with focus on sound, music and media production, based in Bern, Switzerland
- 2012: Studio Residency with Swiss Cultural Council Pro Helvetia in Cairo, Egypt
- 2011-2012 Composer-in-Residence at the Swiss Institute of Rome
- 2010: Master of Arts in Music Composition, with focus on computer music and sound technology, at the Zurich University of the Arts
- 2007: Master of Arts in Music & Media Arts at Bern Academy of the Arts
- Marcel studied music composition and sound arts with mentors including Peter Ablinger, Alvin Curran, Lu Wang, Peter Scherer, Cathy van Eck, Kaspar Ewald, Germán Toro-Pérez, Roland Dahinden, Michael Harenberg and Daniel Weissberg