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POM Perth 2025

Keynote Speaker

Politics of the Machines
Synthetic Sentience
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The 5th POM Conference
The University Of Western Australia
Perth, Australia
July 16-18, 2025

Professor Gil Weinberg Founding Director of Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology

Gil Weinberg is a professor and the founding director of Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology, where he leads the Robotic Musicianship group. His research focuses on developing artificial creativity and musical expression for robots and augmented humans. Among his projects are robotic musicians that can improvise and respond to human musicians, assistive technologies that enable and enhance musical abilities for people with disabilities, and artistic sculptures and installations that explore ethical implications of artificial creativity.

Weinberg presented his work worldwide in venues such as The Kennedy Center, The World Economic Forum, Ars Electronica, Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt Museum, SIGGRAPH, TED-Ed, DLD and others. His music was performed with Orchestras such as Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the National Irish Symphony Orchestra, and the Scottish BBC Symphony while his research has been disseminated through numerous journal articles and patents. Dr. Weinberg received his MS and PhD degrees in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT and his BA from the interdisciplinary program for fostering excellence in Tel Aviv University.

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